Clinical Support Worker Beech AB

Integrated Care System; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker for the Beech AB ward at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. This role entails assisting nursing staff and supervising junior team members to ensure high-quality patient care. Candidates should possess a Level 3 qualification and a commitment to patient support within a team-oriented environment. Opportunities for training and professional growth are available.

Benefits

27-day holiday scheme

Access to NHS discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Motivated team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Experience in health or social care preferable.
• Commitment to complete a National Care Certificate within 12 weeks.

Responsibilities

• Assist nursing staff with clinical duties.
• Supervise and support junior staff.
• Maintain high standards of patient care.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to work under pressure

Basic IT skills

Analytical and judgement skills

Education

Level 3 vocational qualification

National Care Certificate

Numeracy and Literacy Level 2

Job description

Go back North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Support Worker Beech AB

The closing date is 20 August 2025

Beech AB Respiratory - Band 3 Clinical Support Worker, band 3(part time / full time)

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.

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.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

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 additional information link which can be viewed under the read this before applying section.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

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• Junk Mail is checked regularly

Disclosure and Barring Service:

On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

The changes mean that:

• youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
• the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

Unlock Tel: [phone], email [e-mail] or complete the online form on the Unlock website

Please note the cost of the DBS check is increasing from 2nd December and the new cost will be

Standard DBS check £21.50, Enhanced DBS check £49.50 + any admin costs.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

These schemes are subject to availability

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oLevel 3 vocational qualification or oShort courses and completion of competency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care duties or oEquivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3;
• oTheoretical knowledge
• oExperience of a range of care and related procedures
• oclinical observations
• oknowledge of data protection legislation and health and safety at work legislation
• oNational Care Certificate or commitment to complete within 12 weeks of commencing employment
• oNumeracy and Literacy Level 2
• oUndertake relevant additional training for Clinical Support Workers

Knowledge and Experience

• oExperience of working in health or social care.
• oExperience of undertaking and recording clinical observations and escalating changes or findings
• oWorking knowledge of legislation underpinning care provision
• oUnderstanding of the importance of robust, accurate, clear, timely documentation.
• oInsight into behaviours and skills of a carer and the need for effective team work.
• oKnowledge of Safeguarding.
• oUnderstanding work-related boundaries.
• oAwareness of GDPR and the need for confidentiality
• oFamiliarity with current NHS and social care policies.
• oClinical policies and procedures
• oEvidence of understanding of Trust Business
• oExperience of working in the Trust previously

Skills and Aptitudes

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

Other Requirements

• oPromote equality and value diversity
• oAdhere 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.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearper annum, pro rata