Endoscopy Hcsw

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic healthcare support worker to join our JAG accredited Endoscopy unit. This means we have reached national standards and been recognised for delivering outstanding care to our patients. If you want to be part of a progressive team in a supportive environment where you will be encouraged to reach your full potential then this is the job for you.

Your main role will be working as part of our specialist decontamination team, but you will also have a patient facing role

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated

For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

As detailed above you will work closely with the whole endoscopy team and members from other areas such as theatres, gynaecology and clinical engineering.

You will prepare and make available scopes for the endoscopy lists.

You will assist to set up the procedure rooms.

You will have input in our digital tracking system.

You will receive scopes post procedure where you will manually clean them

before loading into our automatic washer disinfectors.

You will unload them and place into the drying cabinets ready for their next use.

You will vacuum pack scopes to maintain sterility, ready for immediate use.

You will follow the daily cleaning schedule and record as required.

You will assist in taking weekly water samples.

You will handle work related chemicals and will receive full training for this.

You will escalate problems to the senior members of the team.

You will assist in the admission of patients and care in the recovery area post procedure.

You will train in cannulation, venepuncture and ECG.

You will work under direct supervision of a trained nurse to assist in the procedure rooms.