Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time band 3 post on the Coronary Care Unit, within the Lancashire Cardiac Centre.
This is to join our small, but experienced, friendly & highly motivated team.
Coronary Care is a 10 bedded unit offering emergency care to cardiac patients within the local & wider area, including an established PPCI service.
Experience is not essential as successful applicants will receive a full induction.
Main duties of the job
Main duties are direct patient care working alongside qualified nurses
Successful applicants must be caring and compassionate
About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents -it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read the attached job description and person spec before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read the attached job description and person spec before submitting your application.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
Desirable
- Experience and involvement of any improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Caring
- Adaptable to the changing needs of the service
- Self-motivated
- Enthusiastic
- Approachable
- Diplomatic
- Innovative
- Flexible
- Responsible and accountable
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
Desirable
- Experience and involvement of any improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Caring
- Adaptable to the changing needs of the service
- Self-motivated
- Enthusiastic
- Approachable
- Diplomatic
- Innovative
- Flexible
- Responsible and accountable
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.
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.
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).
