Vascular Access Support Worker

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to support the vascular access team to provide excellent vascular access care to patients within Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT). The Vascular access team primarily assess patients and provide advice on and insert Peripherally inserted central catheters, Midlines and ultrasound guided cannulation. The Vascular Access Support worker role is pivotal in the delivery of high-quality care for patients requiring enhanced vascular access.

This role is Part time 18.75 hours cross site.

Main duties of the job

You will be working across both Basingstoke and Winchester sites to:

• Maintaining a safe therapeutic clinical environment for all patients who receive intravascular access services.
• To assist with the provision of patient information to patients.
• To liaise with multi-professional colleagues in order to affect the timely and appropriate delivery of intravascular access services.
• To assist in the preparation of clinical equipment in order to assist the intravascular nurse practitioner.
• To help to maintain equipment stock levels under the supervision of the intravascular nurse practitioner.
• Provide information and advice patients, relatives, and carers re: intravascular access within the scope of the Support Practitioner's role.
• To participate in audits of vascular access devices against High impact interventions for the Infection Prevention and control team
• Assist in dressing changes and line care for vascular access devices

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.