Emergency Department Assistant

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you a motivated individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, reliable and keen to develop? Can you work aspart of a team but also on your own initiative?

An exciting opportunity to join as an Emergency Department Assistant at Ipswich Hospital

If you're looking to make the most of your skills in a challenging but extremely rewarding environment, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job

To communicate as required with patients, relatives and visitors in the Emergency Department.
To prioritise all work ensuring all deadlines and essential requirements are met whilst working closely with the shift co-ordinator to ensure an efficient service.
To be responsible for storing, transferring and maintenance of medical gas equipment.
To ensure the Emergency Department is supplied with equipment from central stock areas.
Assist with a safe environment for patients, visitors and staff.
To work collaboratively with the housekeeping team.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Date posted

23 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£23,615 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR2069-24

Job locations

Ipswich Hospital

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Recent experience within an Emergency Department.
Carried out patient transfers for those with complex conditions and trauma patients

Desirable

Previous work experience or currently employed in a caring environment.

Qualifications

Essential

Ability to work to SP11 standards of literacy and numeracy.
GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

Ability to log roll patients and have an understanding of spinal issues
Understanding of patient requirements for those with complex needs/conditions, eg trauma patients

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Recent experience within an Emergency Department.
Carried out patient transfers for those with complex conditions and trauma patients

Desirable

Previous work experience or currently employed in a caring environment.

Qualifications

Essential

Ability to work to SP11 standards of literacy and numeracy.
GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

Ability to log roll patients and have an understanding of spinal issues
Understanding of patient requirements for those with complex needs/conditions, eg trauma patients

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.