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Student Bank HCSW
The closing date is 27 June 2025
Child branch student nurse who is in their 2nd or 3rd year student nurse training
Mental Health branch student nurse who is in their 2nd or 3rd year student nurse training
Midwifery student who is in their 2nd or 3rd year of training
Would you like the opportunity to work alongside a variety of teams in specialised clinical wards and departments?
Are you able to support teams at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, utilising your current knowledge and skills, in order to provide the highest standards of care to our women, infant, children and young people?
We are currently recruiting bank health care support workers to join the Birmingham Women's and Children's Trust bank, to work at both the Women's and Children's Hospital sites, if you have the relevant skills and experience, we will welcome your application.
To apply you must have =
Completed your first year and have this signed off at university, and commenced second year.
Actively continuing with your student training.
Not undergoing any fitness for practice investigations
If you are unable to meet the above 3 criteria, you are not eligible to apply
Main duties of the job
To support in the delivery of high standards of nursing care in partnership with women, children, young people and families in a safe and professional environment.
To care for a defined group of patients, this could be women & children requiring assistance with daily activities. The HCSW role may at times be required to extend to cover the duties of House Keepers, if service requires. All duties always will be indirectly supervised by a registered practitioner.
As an organisation we are committed to ensuring all areas have staffing numbers and skill mix to deliver safe quality care to all our women, children and young people. This means that staff groups may be asked to move to other areas at short notice by a senior manager to ensure safe delivery of care.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* University Student Nurse Paediatric or Mental health field/ Midwife.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of safeguarding & confidentiality issues
* You will have completed twelve months of study at university
* Commenced second year
* Experience at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital
ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS
* Be able to escalate problems when required and report back to supervising practitioner
* Able to recognise limitations
* Able to carry out instructions with diligence and accuracy, reporting back as required
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
* Excellent verbal and listening communication skills Able to work well in a team, work reliably and safely under indirect supervision
* Be able to use initiative and common sense
* Must have high level of self-motivation and desire to succeed
* Able to organise own workload. Be able to use initiative and common sense
* Able to use email and access internet without instruction
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.
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