Bank Endoscopy Clinical Support Worker

Lead Employer – Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 31 December 2024

Job summary

Job Summary

Are you a Health Care Assistant or Clinical Support Worker with current experience within Endoscopy looking for flexible working across a variety of NHS Trusts in the Cheshire and Merseyside region?

We are looking for Health Care Assistants, Clinical Support Workers or equivalent with Endoscopy experience to join the new Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Collaborative Bank.

By joining this new collaborative bank, you would open up access to a greater choice when it comes to working additional hours, the additional benefits include:

  • earning additional pensionable income - paid on a weekly basis
  • choosing duties or shifts to suit your work life balance
  • gaining experience working in another Endoscopy department/Trust
  • sharing learning and knowledge with others within the field of Endoscopy

Main duties of the job

The Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Collaborative Bank are looking for Health Care Assistants, Clinical Support Workers or equivalent who have current experience of Endoscopy to work across a variety of endoscopy units across Merseyside and Cheshire on a bank basis.

You will need to be adaptable in your approach to work, enthusiastic and a self-motivated individual with up to date endoscopy skills who is able to integrate quickly and work as part of the team. You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

To join the Cheshire and Merseyside Collaborative NHS bank you must currently have a substantive role working within the Endoscopy field.

About us

The NHS constitutional values and 6Cs are at the heart of everything we do at the NW Collaborative Bank, and it is vitally important that our workers represent these values at all times. There are six values in the NHS Constitution:

  • working together for patients. Patients come first in everything we do
  • respect and dignity. We value every person - whether patient, their families or carers, or staff - as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits
  • commitment to quality of care. We earn the trust placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics of quality of care - safety, effectiveness, and patient experience right every time
  • compassion. We ensure that compassion is central to the care we provide and respond with humanity and kindness to each person's pain, distress, anxiety or need
  • improving lives. We strive to improve health and wellbeing and people's experiences of the NHS
  • everyone counts. We maximise our resources for the benefit of the whole community, and make sure nobody is excluded, discriminated against or left behind.
About us

Lead Employer has partnered up with a number of NHS Trusts across Merseyside and Cheshire and the workforce platform Patchwork Health to launch the Cheshire and Merseyside Collaborative Bank.

Date posted

01 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

C0024-24-0000

Job locations

MWL

St Helen's

WA9 1TT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please review the attached job description and person specification for further details.

For more information please visit the Cheshire and Merseyside Collaborative NHS Collaborative Bank website - https://sthk.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/cheshire-and-merseyside-collaborative-bank

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please review the attached job description and person specification for further details.

For more information please visit the Cheshire and Merseyside Collaborative NHS Collaborative Bank website - https://sthk.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/cheshire-and-merseyside-collaborative-bank

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care and/or equivalent
  • qualification, and/or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Undertaken NHS Decontamination Training Programme

Experience

Essential

  • Have a current substantive role within an Endoscopy setting
  • Awareness of Health and Safety and Security procedures and policies
  • Flexible and adaptable approach
  • Ability to develop effective relationships at all levels with clients, colleagues and members of the public
  • The ability to establish and maintain effective communications
  • The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • The ability to maintain documentation to the required standard
  • The ability to prioritise own workload
  • The ability to establish and maintain effective communications
  • The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • The ability to maintain documentation to the required standard
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care and/or equivalent
  • qualification, and/or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Undertaken NHS Decontamination Training Programme

Experience

Essential

  • Have a current substantive role within an Endoscopy setting
  • Awareness of Health and Safety and Security procedures and policies
  • Flexible and adaptable approach
  • Ability to develop effective relationships at all levels with clients, colleagues and members of the public
  • The ability to establish and maintain effective communications
  • The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • The ability to maintain documentation to the required standard
  • The ability to prioritise own workload
  • The ability to establish and maintain effective communications
  • The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • The ability to maintain documentation to the required standard

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Lead Employer – Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

MWL

St Helen's

WA9 1TT


Employer's website

https://leademployer.sthk.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lead Employer – Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

MWL

St Helen's

WA9 1TT


Employer's website

https://leademployer.sthk.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

C&M Collab Bank Recruitment Team

C&M Collab Bank Recruitment Team

CM.nhsbank-recruitment@sthk.nhs.uk

01516765588

Date posted

01 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

C0024-24-0000

Job locations

MWL

St Helen's

WA9 1TT


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