Critical Care Support

Freeman Hospital

Carthage (MO)

On-site

USD 28,000 - 34,000

Full time

5 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Staff Benefits

Flexible working

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Critical Care Support Assistant for the Victoria Critical Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. The role involves assisting nurses on a busy neuro and major trauma unit, contributing to a multi-disciplinary team, and maintaining patient dignity and safety.

The post includes interview on 7 October 2026 and a 37.5 hour week. The Trust promotes flexible working options and values staff benefits.

Qualifications

Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence for high standards of patient care.
Ability to meet basic care needs of patients.
Understanding of confidentiality and data protection.
Basic Infection Prevention and Control knowledge.

Responsibilities

Assist registered nurses and other healthcare practitioners in high quality patient care.
Report concerns regarding a patient’s condition to the qualified nurse.
Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to departmental objectives.
Maintain privacy and dignity of patients and provide compassionate care.
Support safe, clean and comfortable ward environment; assist with nutrition and admin duties.

Skills

Basic IT skills

Own development planning

Initiate emergency action

Prioritize tasks

Confidentiality awareness

Infection prevention knowledge

Education

NVQ Level 2 in appropriate subject (or on pathway) or equivalent qualification / experience in care or domestic work

GCSEs in English and Maths (or Level 1/ grades 3-1/D-G)

Job description

Employer heading

Urgent treatment centres

Critical Care Support

Band 2

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the team on the Victoria Critical Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary as a Critical Care Support Assistant.

The post holder will work on a busy critical care unit that specialises in neuro conditions and major trauma injuries.

Interview Date: 7 October 2026
37 hours 30 minutes/week

Main duties of the job

This role will involve assisting registered nurses and other healthcare practitioners in providing high quality patient care and report any concerns regarding a patients condition to the registered practitioner.

The post holder will be required to work part of an effective multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Dental Hospital
Cramlington Manor Walks
Urgent treatment centres
Newcastle Fertility Centre
Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Post holder will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other ward / department duties as required, e.g. general tidiness, re-determined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
To abide by Trust policies and procedures
To assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care and report any concerns regarding the patient’s condition to the qualified nurse.
Maintain patients’ privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner.
Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
Maintaining a safe, clean and comfortable environment for the patients, their families and visitors.
Actively contribute to the provision of nutrition of the patients on the Ward / Department
Assist with admin & clerical duties as required.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care.
Ability to meet basic care needs of patients.
Understanding of confidentiality
Basic knowledge of Infection Prevention and Control

Desirable criteria

Understanding of basic food hygiene concepts
Understanding of basic safeguarding
An understanding of working in the NHS

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic IT skills
Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager.
Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire.

Experience

Essential criteria

Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities

Desirable criteria

Experience of caring in a health care setting

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NVQ Level 2 in appropriate subject (or on pathway) or equivalent qualification / experience in care or domestic work
GCSEs in English and Maths at Grades 3-1 (or D-G or Level 1 Functional/Key Skills)

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download