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Part time Health Care Support Worker in Nuclear Medicine
Closed for applications on: 10-Sept-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 10-Sept-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Sydney Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 25 hours per week (0900 - 1400)
Salary
- Salary
- £29,485 - £31,088 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nuclear Medicine
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We offer an opportunity to become part of a small, friendly multidisciplinary team working together to provide high quality imaging services for our service users.
This is a part time position, working from 0900 to 1400 Monday to Friday.
The post is based in the Nuclear Medicine Department of the Royal Brompton Hospital, which is located close to the King's Road in Chelsea.
The department carries out a range of scans that use radioactive tracers to help to visualise internal structures in the body and to identify abnormalities. While most of our patients attend as outpatients, we also provide for inpatients from GSTT and elsewhere.
As a Health Care Support Worker in Nuclear Medicine, you will be part of a team working together to improve patient wellbeing by providing high quality images to aid diagnosis and inform treatment. We aim to provide a safe and welcoming environment for our service users and our HCSWs are essential to this.
Most of your work will be in support of myocardial perfusion imaging, which is a way of looking at the blood supply to the heart muscle. You will be involved in ensuring patients are correctly prepared for their scans, and you will assist clinical nurse specialists to carry out exercise tests and to support them as they administer medications and radioactive tracers as part of the imaging process. You will also look after patients after their tests and ensure they are ready to return home or to the ward.
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- Provision of clinical support to patients and the multi-disciplinary team during myocardial perfusion imaging and / or other scans taking place in the Nuclear Medicine department.
- Assisting in the provision of care to patients in all areas of the department, supported and supervised by a registered nurse or nuclear medicine technician.
- Monitoring and maintaining stock levels of clinical and other consumables.
- Assisting with general hygiene, orderliness and safety within the department.
- Provision of support and assistance to the Nuclear Medicine administration team.
- Assisting with and, after training, taking responsibility for gathering patient feedback from surveys and questionnaires
Working for our organisation
The Nuclear Medicine department is patient focussed. We seek to ensure the safety and well being of service users, promoting dignity and respecting differences and preferences.
Team members are supportive of each other and we encourage and enable staff development. All team members are encouraged to contribute to service development and improvement in order to provide the best possible service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to fulfil any duties allocated that are commensurate with the role.
This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.
1. General:
- To be courteous and helpful to patients, carers, visitors and staff.
- To communicate effectively with patients, carers and other healthcare professionals in relation to the tests we carry out.
- To undertake required radiation protection training.
- To work within the radiation safety local rules.
- To deliver and support patient care as directed by nursing or radiography team members.
- To contact patients or carers by telephone or email to address queries and to ensure patient preparation is carried out correctly.
- To maintain a safe and pleasant environment in clinical and waiting areas.
- To be familiar with relevant current Trust Policies and Procedures.
- Aiding patients who have difficulties with mobility, including assisting with personal care needs.
- To ensure all patients can access food and drink when attending. This may include monitoring the status of drinks machines and other facilities, ordering food from Catering, and providing physical help.
- To escort patients between Trust departments.
- To maintain the cleanliness of specified clinical equipment in the department.
- To maintain supplies of clean linen and to arrange used linen disposal.
- To arrange deep cleaning of clinical areas when needed
- To ensure the medication cupboard is kept clean and tidy and that temperature checks are carried out and documented.
- Unpacking and correct storage of deliveries of consumables.
- Engagement with Trust appraisal processes, related meeting and discussions, and subsequent learning and development requirements.
- Undertake relevant training for electronic information systems in place and under development.
- Collect data for, and assist patients with, surveys and feedback collection via written or electronic means.
- Assist in the orientation of new members of staff to the ward.
- Attend and participate in monthly nurse team meetings.
- Attend the Trust’s monthly governance day sessions.
2. Clinical:
Clinical work will be performed under the supervision of nurses, doctors and radiographers/technicians involved in the imaging process. Responsibilities must be performed as directed during training, and as defined in this job description.
- To undergo all applicable radiation safety training and to remain up to date.
- To adhere to all radiation safety procedures as per training and local rules. These procedures and processes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- wearing personal radiation monitors as directed.
- personal and environmental contamination monitoring and documentation of findings.
- communication of concerns to appropriate radiation protection team members.
- Carrying out checks of clinical areas before work begins, including but not limited to checking oxygen cylinders, ensuring stock levels of consumables such as ECG electrodes and cannulation equipment are adequate, etc.
- To assist patients with the clothing and personal effects, maintaining their privacy and dignity.
- To assist patients as needed when preparing for or undergoing cardiac stress testing.
- Positioning ECG leads, blood pressure cuff and other monitoring equipment prior to and during cardiac stress testing.
- Recording observations in writing or by entering information in electronic form.
- Carrying out blood glucose monitoring and documentation of findings.
- Performing 12 lead ECGs.
- Transporting shielded radioactive containers, other small items of equipment or additional medications within the department.
- Assisting patients to position themselves on scanners if needed, under the supervision of radiographers and technicians.
- Monitoring and maintaining stock levels of clinical consumables throughout the department, advising nursing staff when orders need to be placed.
- Ensuring that clinical equipment such as exercise machines, monitors, BP cuffs, and similar, are clean and that supplies of bed rolls, ECG paper etc. are adequate.
- Ordering supplies as required from domestic services, linen department, catering.
- Correct and timely disposal of radioactive and non-radioactive waste as per training provided, local rules, and Trust policy.
- IV cannulation (on completion of appropriate training).
- Application of simple dressings after removal of IV cannulas.
Closing date: 09/09/2024
Interview date: 30/09/2024
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Relevant experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience in a relevant NHS healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience of taking clinical observations.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Care certificate, or willingness to undertake care certificate
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant qualifications
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good standard of written and spoken English
- Ability to use a PC and similar electronic devices for data entry and as an information resource.
- Demonstrate ability to manage priorities under pressure.
- Understanding of the requirements of patient confidentiality
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Walker
- Job title
- Clinical Surse Specialist Nuclear Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
or
Anita Grigorova
Clinical Nurse Specialist Nuclear Medicine
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