Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking a Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant to provide at-home support for patients undergoing dialysis. The role requires energetic and reliable individuals to perform essential tasks such as setting up dialysis machines and supporting patient treatment. A full UK driving license and access to a car are essential. Candidates with renal experience are preferred, and full training will be provided. This position offers unique opportunities for personal growth in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a healthcare assistant in the NHS.
• Full UK driving licence with access to a reliable car.
• Previous renal dialysis experience preferred.
• Previous experience working in the community.

Responsibilities

• Visit patients at home and set up their automated peritoneal dialysis machine.
• Monitor and support patients undergoing dialysis treatment.
• Carry out peritoneal dialysis fluid changes in the patient's home when required.
• Assist qualified nurses in the Home Therapies Unit.

Skills

Reliable

Energetic

Enthusiastic

Moving and handling competency

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

The closing date is 28 December 2025

PLEASE NOTE FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF VEHICLE ARE ESSENTIAL.

We are looking to recruit energetic, enthusiastic and reliable individuals to work with a team of healthcare assistants visiting patients at home to prepare and set up the patients peritoneal dialysis machine or to set up manual peritoneal dialysis. Patients receive at least one visit per day from one of the team, including at weekends and in the evenings. The working pattern includes regular weekend work and late shifts. Shifts are between 8 am and 10 pm on a rota basis.

This is a busy but rewarding service, and the applicant needs to be a reliable individual.

Full training will be given to the successful candidates but renal experience is desirable.

It is essential that you have a full clean driving license and have access to a reliable car.

Main duties of the job

We are a team of nurses caring for patients undergoing dialysis treatment at home.

We teach patients how to do their own dialysis at home and then monitor and support the patient and their family at home.

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents as attached to this advert.

• Traveling to patients throughout Nottinghamshire, full driving license therefore required
• Setting up patients dialysis machine in their home
• Changing and organising patient dialysis stock
• Carrying out manual peritoneal dialysis fluid exchanges when requested.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

PLEASE NOTE FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF VEHICLE ARE ESSENTIAL.

Key points are:

• To visit patients in their homes and prepare their automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine
• Visit patients at home, at night, and commence their dialysis treatment when required
• Visit patients in the morning to disconnect them from their dialysis machine
• Carry out peritoneal dialysis fluid changes in the patients home when required
• Monitor patients stock of dialysis equipment, carrying out stock counts when requested
• Changing patient dressings to their dialysis tube
• To work in the Home Therapies Unit assisting the qualified nurses
• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team
• Following appropriate training and assessment, undertake clinical and non-clinical duties in support of the registered nurses in the Home Therapies Unit
• When required, to help on the Home Therapies Unit supporting clinics and daycase patients

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience as a healthcare assistant in the NHS
• Full UK driving licence with access to reliable car
• Previous renal dialysis experience
• Previous experience working in the community

Lifting and handling experience

• Up to date moving and handling competency

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.

Address

CAPD/ Renal Home Therapies Unit, City Campus