Clinical Support Worker Apprenticeship

About the role

Join our team as a Nursing Assistant and make a real impact! 🌟 We're looking for enthusiastic individuals to provide top-notch patient care under the guidance of senior colleagues. You'll get hands-on experience, assisting with essential clinical tasks after mastering relevant skills. 🩺

What you'll be doing:

• Setting up and preparing patient environments, equipment, and materials for clinical settings. 🛏️
• Helping registered nurses collect specimens (stool, urine, sputum, wound swabs) and assisting with delegated treatments, accurately recording everything. 📝
• Supporting healthcare professionals with clinical procedures, always prioritizing health, safety, and security. ✅
• Accurately recording patient observations and data, flagging any concerns to senior colleagues promptly. 🚨
• Identifying changes in patient conditions and seeking advice from senior staff when needed. 📞
• Working within your scope of practice and referring tasks beyond your competence to the right people. 🤝
• Accurately carrying out delegated tasks and assessments, reporting back on your findings. ✔️
• Contributing to your own professional growth and skill development. 🌱
• Safely moving patients, machinery, and goods according to Trust policies, identifying and minimizing risks. 🚶‍♀️
• Taking and recording vital observations like temperature, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure, reporting any abnormalities. 🌡️
• Recording ECGs. ⚡
• Actively participating in agreed learning activities and keeping a record of your progress. 📚
• Engaging patients and their families in shared decision-making, offering reassurance and support. 🤗

Key responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of nursing care under supervision.
• Prepare clinical environment, equipment, and materials appropriately.
• Assist with clinical procedures, specimen collection, and delegated treatments.
• Accurately record clinical observations and patient data, escalating concerns.
• Work within own competence, identifying and minimising risks to health, safety, and security.