Overview
Main area Critical Care Unit Grade NHS AfC: Band 3. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full time; Part time available (37.5 hours per week, or 19 hours/week (0.51 WTE)). Job ref: 293-SWNS-0500.
Employer: Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Site: Critical Care Unit - Homerton University Hospital. Town: London. Salary: £30,546 - £32,207 p.a. inc. Salary period: Yearly. Closing: 24/09/2025 23:59.
Clinical Support Worker - Critical Care Unit
NHS AfC: Band 3
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Job overview
Clinical Support Worker - Critical Care Unit Band 3
Make a real difference in Critical Care
We are looking for a committed and compassionate Clinical Support Worker to join our Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU).
In this role, you will work under the direction and supervision of the ITU Nurse in Charge, supporting the ITU team in providing delegated nursing care to patients and helping to maintain an efficient, safe environment for the care of critically ill adults.
What you’ll do:
* Provide hands-on support with delegated nursing care.
* Maintain high standards of cleanliness, organisation, and safety.
* Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure exceptional patient care.
* If you’re dedicated, empathetic, and ready to play a vital part in supporting critically ill patients, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Clinical and Technical Skills - providing personal care to the patients as prescribed in the individual plan of care and supervised by the registered nursing staff.
Maintaining Safe Environment - ensures environment meets infection control and safety standards and all consumables and equipment are available and ready for use at all times.
Education and Training - adhere to Trust, Divisional & Critical Care policies/guidelines and competencies-based frameworks.
Communication Skills - ability to form good working relationships within the team.
Working for our organisation
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
Homerton Hospital has attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients, including services from St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its nursing community, with a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Educated to or able to demonstrate equivalent experience to NVQ level 3
* Care Certificate
* Relevant competency based workbooks or equivalent relevant experience to vocational qualification level 3 and Essential Skills for Clinical Support Workers
Skills/ Abilities
* Ability to communicate with people clearly and effectively
* Hand eye coordination for manoeuvring equipment, test equipment such as blood glucose monitors, procedural skills, bathing patients/clients
* Able to use frequent moderate effort for several short periods to long periods
* Able to work in unpleasant conditions frequently with exposure to hazards, including dealing with foul linen and body fluids and aggressive behaviour with exposure to some hazards
Experience
* Experience of working in a busy healthcare environment
* Care of patients/clients with chronic illness/conditions, terminally ill and death
* Experience of dealing with challenging behaviour
* Experience of working effectively in a busy and high pressured environment
* Relevant clinical skills including associated competencies
Guidance for Applicants
Please ensure that you read the Guidance Notes On Submitting An Application under Additional Documentation before completing your application.
Please note: we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
We are committed to achieving equality and inclusion at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and we respect and value the diversity and differences of our patients and our people, ensuring everyone is enabled to thrive, feels a sense of belonging, and is able to be their authentic self. We offer a range of flexible working options that enable you to balance your work and personal life, including part-time, compressed hours, remote working and job-shares.
If you are interested in joining our team, please let us know your preferred working pattern in your application, and we will consider all requests for flexible working and try to accommodate them wherever possible.
Please note that secondment arrangements will be considered for any fixed term positions, with the agreement of the existing line manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, and have been approved as a Disability Confident Employer.
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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.
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