SDEC Unit Technician, Band 3

Job summary

This is a substantive post SDEC unit are pleased to welcome applications for 2 Band 3 Technician posts . The successful candidate will be required to work closely with the Unit Manager, unit nursing team.

- Ability to get on well with people at all levels and work effectively as a team member, and supporting the delivery of assessed and evaluated programs of care.

- Under guidance, deliver safe patient care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using equipment and resources safely and as appropriate.

- To adhere to all Trust policies & procedures.

- Communicate effectively, especially where pts ability to do so is compromised, including an ability to deal with routine pt enquirers. On occasions, the job holder may be exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances.

- Undertake specific delegated tasks following the appropriate training and competency level including undertaking daily basic safety checks on emergency equipment, recording of routine observations.

- Deliver high standards of care acting as a role model for all nursing staff.

Main duties of the job

Dexterity and accuracy pertaining to clinical skills.

Ability to manage own workload and organise others.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills verbal and written.

To work with medical and nursing staff, providing support and ability to perform delegated tasks to contribute to expediting treatment for presenting medical conditions

Practical ability, prioritisation and time management

Venepuncture/willing to learn and be trained

Cannulation/willing to learn and be trained

Undertake specific delegated tasks following the appropriate training and competency level like ECG and blood glucose monitoring, reporting any abnormalities to RGN.

To work with medical and nursing staff, providing support and ability to perform delegated tasks to contribute to expediting treatment for presenting medical conditions

Where appropriate, escort of patients test.

Undertake daily basic safety checks on emergency equipment.

Undertake specific delegated tasks following the appropriate training and competency level including undertaking daily basic safety checks on emergency equipment, recording of routine observations, baseline observations including ECG and blood glucose monitoring, reporting any abnormalities RGN

Assist the registered nurse in the admission, treatment and discharge of patients and the evaluation of specific programs of care, by completing approved areas of documentation

Where appropriate, escort of patients, for example to x-ray or to appropriate wards.

About us

The SDEC team is a very friendly and dynamic multi-disciplinary team. Great care can change everything. Like you, at the Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Trust we want to deliver truly brilliant, integrated care. And just like you, we are ambitious about what we do. We are continually striving to improve patients experience and outcomes.

To do this we have developed an innovative Trustwide Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Service both in Gloucester and Cheltenham Hospitals based on national best-practice guidelines. The aim is to provide increased health outcomes for patients, redesigning the emergency care model so that care can be provided on the same day. Patients admitted through this pathway are seen diagnosed, treated and discharged on the same day, leaving admission to a hospital bed reserved only for very sick patients.