Emergency Care Technician

NHS; Smethwick; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Smethwick is looking for enthusiastic Emergency Care Technicians. You will support the nursing team by ensuring timely investigations and providing high-quality patient care. Proven skills in clinical practice and communication are essential. Experience in a healthcare setting is preferred. This role offers a chance to contribute to a patient-centered service that aims to manage emergencies effectively and safely.

Qualifications

• Proven interpersonal skills and experience in acute medicine.
• Ability to perform cannulation and phlebotomy.
• Experience in a hospital or healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Support nursing team with timely investigations and procedures.
• Ensure patients have a positive MSDEC experience.
• Deliver quality, effective care during the patient journey.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Basic First Aid Certificate

Job description

We are seeking enthusiastic, driven Emergency Care Technicians with excellent clinical and communication skills to join the Same Day Emergency Care Unit. The SDEC department, this is an acute area currently based at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital which aims to provide specialised acute service to treat those with varying medical conditions, enabling a significant number of our patients who require emergency care to be managed safely the same day and without the need to admit into hospital.

We are redesigning our services to ensure they are streamlined and consistent with safe, effective patient centered care, Medicine Same day Emergency care (MSDEC) forms an integral part of the redesign.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the nursing team ensuring that patients have timely investigations by carrying out specific skills to include amongst others; cannulation, phlebotomy, collection of blood cultures, electrocardiogram (ECG).

Supporting all fundamentals of care required, ensuring all patients have a positive experience of the MSDEC process.

The successful candidate will have proven interpersonal skills and acute medicine experience.

You will be able to demonstrate clinical expertise and knowledge to support the team to deliver a high quality, effective and safe patient journey.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community. Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Key skills - literacy and numeric
• Basic First Aid Certificate

Experience

• Relevant experience working in a hospital or other healthcare environment, in the NHS.
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Working in a healthcare setting or demonstrable experience of undertaking a caring role

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.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.