Band 3 Clinical Support Worker Beech AB

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Carlisle is seeking a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker for Beech AB ward. The successful candidate will provide high-quality patient care, assist nursing staff with clinical duties, and have a commitment to completing a National Care Certificate. This role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as the ability to work under pressure in a team-oriented environment. Full and part-time hours are available, with a salary range from £24,937 to £26,598 annually.

Qualifications

• Commitment to complete National Care Certificate within 12 weeks.
• Experience in health or social care.
• Understanding of GDPR and the need for confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Assist nursing staff with clinical duties.
• Lead by example and support junior staff.
• Ensure high standards of patient care.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Active listening

Time-keeping

Basic IT skills

Education

Level 3 vocational qualification

National Care Certificate

Numeracy and Literacy Level 2

Job description

Band 3 Clinical Support Worker Beech AB

The closing date is 13 January 2026

Beech AB Respiratory - Band 3 Clinical Support Worker, (part time / full time) 150 hours available per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work on Beech AB ward at the Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle. We are seeking to recruit highly enthusiastic and motivated team players who will work within the team providing high quality patient care.

Beech AB is a general medical and respiratory ward, which receives general medical transfers from EMAU, Coronary Care unit, high dependency unit, and other wards both within and outside the trust.

The essential criteria for this role includes the requirement to have a care certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake this. For further information please see the attached Care Certificate document attached.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 3 Clinical Support you will be responsible for providing high standards of care. Your role will involve assisting the nursing staff with some clinical duties. Training will be arranged for you to achieve these skills. Being a Band 3 Clinical Support also means you will lead by example and supervise and support junior members of staff to improve and maintain high standards of care.

The successful applicant should be highly motivated with good interpersonal skills and be able to work under pressure and work well within the team. They should have a keen desire to provide and maintain a high standard of care at all times.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust's sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Level 3 vocational qualification or Short courses and completion of competency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care duties or Equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3;
• Theoretical knowledge
• Experience of a range of care and related procedures
• Clinical observations
• Knowledge of data protection legislation and health and safety at work legislation
• National Care Certificate or commitment to complete within 12 weeks of commencing employment
• Numeracy and Literacy Level 2
• Undertake relevant additional training for Clinical Support Workers

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in health or social care.
• Experience of undertaking and recording clinical observations and escalating changes or findings
• Working knowledge of legislation underpinning care provision
• Understanding of the importance of robust, accurate, clear, timely documentation.
• Insight into behaviours and skills of a carer and the need for effective team work.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding.
• Understanding work-related boundaries.
• Awareness of GDPR and the need for confidentiality
• Familiarity with current NHS and social care policies.
• Clinical policies and procedures
• Evidence of understanding of Trust Business
• Experience of working in the Trust previously

Skills and Aptitudes

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and active listening skills
• Ability to adopt appropriate styles and methods of communication.
• Time-keeping, planning and prioritisation skills.
• Basic IT skills to use electronic patient records and other Trust systems.
• Analytical and judgement skills to make decisions based on patient / service user interactions, observations and metrics
• Ability to demonstrate the importance of holistic person centred care and related procedures
• Ability to use initiative appropriately.

Other Requirements

• Promote equality and value diversity
• Adhere to Trust Values and professional behaviours.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year, pro rata