The Royal Berkshire
Renal Home Therapy Healthcare Assistant (Part Time 24 hours p/w)
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Band 3 Renal Home Therapy Healthcare Assistant
This is a part-time post for 24 hours per week.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to be able to travel to patients - you must therefore be a car driver / owner for this role (area covered M4 corridor Junction 4/5 - 14).
The Berkshire Kidney Unit
The Berkshire Kidney unit: University department of Renal Medicine cares for patients with Renal disease across Berkshire.
The Renal Home Therapy Team
The Renal home therapy team based at the RBH site provide a variety of services both on-site and within the community. We are looking for an HCA to join our Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) team.
A unique role for an HCA - you will be required to travel across East and West Berkshire, providing dialysis related care to patients in their own homes to our Assisted Automated Peritoneal dialysis (AAPD) patients.
Plus occasionally working within the Renal Home Therapy nursing team back at the RBH performing similar tasks for the wider Peritoneal dialysis patient cohort.
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An opportunity to work both alone in the community and as part of the wider RBH Renal team.
Community Visits Include:
- Set up, dismantling and disposal of dialysis machine and associated equipment
- Performing both manual automated Peritoneal dialysis
- Stock control
- Clinical observations
- Liaising with on-site nursing renal team
- Caring for the dialysis device
Requirements
Candidates need to be prepared to travel across East and west Berks using your own car - mileage will be reimbursed.
Candidates must be self-motivated and confident in lone working plus have the ability to work within a team back at the RBH.
As a lone worker you must uphold the trust CARE values.
- Basic IT Skills Essential.
- No previous experience necessary as training will be provided.
Candidates need to be prepared to work with a diverse multi-cultured patient cohort who often have multiple disease processes.
Duties back at the RBH are similar.
Predominately a lone working role, under the instruction of the trained Renal nursing staff.
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About Reading
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our "CARE" Values
Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Barbara Harris
- Job title: Lead nurse for Renal homeTherapies
- Email address: barbara.harris@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01183228555
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