Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant to join their team. The role involves visiting patients at home to assist with peritoneal dialysis, providing necessary support and ensuring the proper setup of their dialysis machines. Applicants must have a clean driving license and be reliable individuals, as the job includes travel throughout Nottinghamshire and working flexible shifts, including evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Full clean driving license and access to a reliable car required.
• Experience in community healthcare is essential.
• Previous renal dialysis experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Visiting patients to set up and monitor their dialysis machines.
• Carrying out manual peritoneal dialysis and changing patient dressings.
• Assisting registered nurses in clinical and non-clinical duties.

Skills

Reliability

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Experience as a healthcare assistant in the NHS

Job description

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Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

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Job summary

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.

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

Experience

• 6 months
• 6 months

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

CAPD/ Renal Home Therapies Unit, City Campus

CAPD/ Renal Home Therapies Unit, City Campus