Catheter Lab & Bronchoscopy Assistant (CLA)

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in the UK is seeking motivated multi-skilled healthcare support staff to provide essential patient care. Responsibilities include patient portering, assisting with clinical procedures, and maintaining a safe and clean environment. Candidates should possess a Care Certificate and have prior NHS care experience. This is a Band 2 position with opportunities to advance pay steps. Join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering high-quality patient experiences in a state-of-the-art facility.

Benefits

Training and supervision to gain competencies

Qualifications

• Experience in NHS care settings.
• Ability to assist with patient monitoring.
• Skills in maintaining clinical cleanliness.

Responsibilities

• Porter patients using wheelchairs and beds.
• Assist with procedures under nurse supervision.
• Monitor patients during their transfer.

Skills

Patient care

Assisting clinical procedures

Effective communication

Education

Care Certificate

Job description

Would you like to join to work in a fast paced, state of the art department, working alongside members of the multidisciplinary team to provide support with a variety of roles including:

• Portering of patients in wheelchairs, or on trollies and beds to and from the Cath Labs and Bronchoscopy
• Assisting with procedures and tasks specified by and under the direct and indirect supervision of registered nurses.
• Monitoring of stable patients once recovered during their transfer back to the ward.
• Keeping our clinical areas stocked with essential equipment and supplies by working closely with materials management team and Cath Lab nurses.
• Keeping our clinical area clean, tidy and safe by assisting with cleaning of clinical equipment under supervision of the nursing team.

The role exists to provide a multi‑skilled health care professional who supports clinical and non‑clinical practices in the department aiming for high quality patient care and experience

This is an exciting and challenging role and we are looking for motivated self‑reliant staff. In return we can offer you training and supervision to gain competencies.

You should be in receipt of a Care Certificate and have previous NHS care experience.

Pay & Pay Step

This position will be paid as a Band 2 and following successful completion of the Care Certificate and Trust competencies you will move to Band 3 pay step 1

About Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state‑of‑the‑art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK’s first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission – a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day‑to‑day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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