Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

Transformationunitgm; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant to provide home-based care for patients undergoing dialysis. The role requires a full clean driving license and reliable transport, with regular visits expected across Nottinghamshire. Successful applicants will assist patients in setting up their dialysis machines and providing support and monitoring. Experience in renal care is a plus but not required. Join a committed healthcare team making a meaningful impact in patient lives.

Qualifications

• Must have full clean driving license and access to a vehicle.
• Desirable renal experience but not essential.
• Up to date moving and handling competency.

Responsibilities

• Travel to patients' homes and assist with setting up dialysis machines.
• Monitor and support dialysis patients and their families.
• Prepare and manage patient stock of dialysis equipment.

Skills

Reliability

Effective communication

Teamwork

Lifting and handling competencies

Education

Full UK driving licence

Access to a reliable vehicle

Job description

This post is only open to applicants whose current post has been identified as at risk.

Job summary

Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

Band 3

Job overview

PLEASE NOTE FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF VEHICLE ARE ESSENTIAL.

We are looking to recruit energetic, enthusiastic and reliable individuals to work with a team of healthcare assistants visiting patients at home to prepare and set up the patients peritoneal dialysis machine or to set up manual peritoneal dialysis. Patients receive at least one visit per day from one of the team, including at weekends and in the evenings. The working pattern includes regular weekend work and late shifts. Shifts are between 8 am and 10 pm on a rota basis.

This is a busy but rewarding service, and the applicant needs to be a reliable individual.

Full training will be given to the successful candidates but renal experience is desirable.

It is essential that you have a full clean driving license and have access to a reliable car.

Main duties of the job

We are a team of nurses caring for patients undergoing dialysis treatment at home. We teach patients how to do their own dialysis at home and then monitor and support the patient and their family at home.

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents as attached to this advert.

• Traveling to patients throughout Nottinghamshire, full driving license therefore required
• Setting up patients dialysis machine in their home
• Changing and organising patient dialysis stock
• Carrying out manual peritoneal dialysis fluid exchanges when requested.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

PLEASE NOTE FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF VEHICLE ARE ESSENTIAL.

Key points are:

• To visit patients in their homes and prepare their automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine
• Visit patients at home, at night, and commence their dialysis treatment when required
• Visit patients in the morning to disconnect them from their dialysis machine
• Carry out peritoneal dialysis fluid changes in the patients home when required
• Monitor patients stock of dialysis equipment, carrying out stock counts when requested
• Changing patient dressings to their dialysis tube
• To work in the Home Therapies Unit assisting the qualified nurses
• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team
• Following appropriate training and assessment, undertake clinical and non-clinical duties in support of the registered nurses in the Home Therapies Unit
• When required, to help on the Home Therapies Unit supporting clinics and daycase patients

Person specification

Lifting and handling experience

• Up to date moving and handling competency

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licences through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation into the Trust ID system at your face‑to‑face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre‑employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Name Pippa Law | Job title CAPD/ Renal Home Therapies Manager | Email address [e-mail] | Telephone number 0115 9627705 | Additional information

Informal visits are welcomed.

Please feel free to contact Pippa Law or Davinder Konstandi to discuss the role informally in further detail.