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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.
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.
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
Person Specification
Essential
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care and/or equivalent qualification, and/or equivalent experience
- Have a current substantive role within an Endoscopy setting
- Care Certificate or willingness to work towards the Care Certificate qualification
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Ability to work autonomously, and use own initiative when necessary
- Flexible and adaptable approach
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care and/or equivalent qualification, and/or equivalent experience
- Have a current substantive role within an Endoscopy setting
- Care Certificate or willingness to work towards the Care Certificate qualification
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Ability to work autonomously, and use own initiative when necessary
- Flexible and adaptable approach
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
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)
