Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Nottingham, NG5 1PB |
| Cwmni: | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7236329/164-7236329 |
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We are looking to recruit energetic, enthusiastic and reliable individuals to work with a team of healthcare assistants visiting patients at home to prepare and set up the patients peritoneal dialysis machine or to set up manual peritoneal dialysis. Patients receive at least one visit per day from one of the team, including at weekends and in the evenings. The working pattern includes regular weekend work and late shifts. Shifts are between 8 am and 10 pm on a rota basis.
This is a busy but rewarding service, and the applicant needs to be a reliable individual.
Full training will be given to the successful candidates but renal experience is desirable.
It is essential that you have a full clean driving license and have access to a reliable car
We are a team of nurses caring for patients undergoing dialysis treatment at home.
We teach patients how to do their own dialysis at home and then monitor and support the patient and their family at home
In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents as attached to this advert.
• Traveling to patients throughout Nottinghamshire, full driving license therefore required
• Setting up patients dialysis machine in their home
• Changing and organising patient dialysis stock
• Carrying out manual peritoneal dialysis fluid exchanges when requested.
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.
Key points are:
• To visit patients in their homes and prepare their automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine
• Visit patients at home, at night, and commence their dialysis treatment when required
• Visit patients in the morning to disconnect them from their dialysis machine
• Carry out peritoneal dialysis fluid changes in the patients home when required
• Monitor patients stock of dialysis equipment, carrying out stock counts when requested
• Changing patient dressings to their dialysis tube
• To work in the Home Therapies Unit assisting the qualified nurses
• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team
• Following appropriate training and assessment, undertake clinical and non-clinical duties in support of the registered nurses in the Home Therapies Unit
• When required, to help on the Home Therapies Unit supporting clinics and daycase patients
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025