South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Support Worker - Theatres
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Clinical Support Worker (CSW)
The role of Clinical Support Worker (CSW) is an integral part of the theatre team.
You will be required to undertake a variety of tasks to support the team in the delivery of consistently high quality patient care in the peri-operative environment. These include working in the operating theatre as part of the integrated team, ensuring high standards of infection control are met, supporting patients within the perioperative department and checking and stocking of consumables.
Full participation in a variety of shifts including evenings and weekends is required.
We Can Offer You
- On-going learning and development, providing clearly structured career pathways in preparation towards specialist roles.
- Available car parking on commencement of employment (cost is pro-rata dependant on grade).
- Flexible working - all working patterns will be considered to support a healthy work/life balance.
We welcome your enquiries and/or an informal visit.
The ideal candidate will be forward thinking, motivated, have excellent communication skills and have a caring and compassionate nature who can work alongside our friendly and motivated team of Allied Health Professionals and Nurses.
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The Clinical Support Worker (CSW) will undertake high quality, caring and compassionate personal care and associated duties under the direction and supervision of the registered professional and working as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
As a CSW you make a valuable and important contribution to the delivery of high quality healthcare in the Trust. Your role is to support the Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) in the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate care to patients and their relatives. This job description is to be read in conjunction with the person specification for this particular job.
Duties
As a CSW in the operating theatre environment you will participate in a full range of perioperative care which includes circulating duties and assisting with transporting, moving and positioning of patients both within the department and inter-departmental. You will also be expected to:
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness within theatres and the department as a whole
- Assist in Holding Bay duties and acting as chaperone to patient
- Assist with completion of documentation appropriate to the patient’s individual care
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We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate and inclusive care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Linda Comyns
- Job title: Workforce & Development for Theatres
- Email address: linda.comyns@swft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07870301793
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