Band 3 Health Care Assistant Job summary
This is a great health care assistant opportunity for an energetic, enthusiastic, and reliable individual to work within a hospital-based abdominal transplant coordinator team, to give support with clinical, administrative and phlebotomy tasks. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to gain experience in abdominal transplantation. You will work closely with the abdominal transplants coordinators who specialize working up patients who require a kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant. You will be heavily involved providing support to the live renal abdominal team who specialize working up patients wishing to donate their kidney whilst alive. You will provide administrative tasks working within the trust and other organizations such as NHSBT.
We are looking for a health care assistant who is passionate about delivering the highest standards of care and always puts the patient first. We recognize outstanding individuals and will support them in their personal and professional development in every way we can. We will provide training and support required within the role. If you are a committed, flexible, team-player who insists on the best possible care for your patients and are ready to become part of the abdominal transplant coordination team, then we’d love to hear from you.
- Interview Date: 19th June 2025
- 37 hours 30 minutes/ week
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
Your role will be a mix of clinical outpatient care, administrative duties and phlebotomy. You will be involved in supporting the patient’s journey pre and post transplantation for both live donor and deceased donor pathways.
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.
- Venepuncture and blood form work. Full training will be given if you require this.
- Admin and Healthcare duties to ensure smooth running of the service. This includes working with other wards, departments, organisations and external agencies
- Follow up, coordination and recording of various tests and investigations required throughout the patient’s transplant journey
- Supporting the team admin lead
- Co-ordinating calls from patients or other departments / teams
- Supporting the patient pathway throughout the Transplant Coordinator service
You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
About us
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospital
o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital
o Newcastle Fertility Centre
o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
o Northern Genetics Service
o Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing support in some specialist outpatient clinics including undertaking Venepuncture, collecting urine sample and recording height , weight . Full training will be given if you require this.
- Admin and Healthcare duties to ensure smooth running of the service. This includes working with other wards, departments, organisations and external agencies
- Follow up, coordination and recording of various tests and investigations required throughout the patients transplant journey
- Supporting the team admin lead
- Co-ordinating calls from patients or other departments / teams
- Supporting the patient pathway throughout the Transplant Coordinator service
Job Purpose
- To abide by Trust policies and procedures
- To assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care
- To undertake a range of delegated clinical duties
- Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in acompassionate and sensitive manner.
- Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
- Continue to develop and maintain competencies to maintain high quality safe care.
- Post holder will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other ward/ department duties as required, e.g. general tidiness, re-determined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
- Assist with admin & clerical duties as required.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care
- Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
- Ability to meet basic care needs of patients, washing dressing, assistance with feeding etc.
- Understanding of confidentiality
Desirable
- Understanding of basic food hygiene concepts
- Understanding of basic safeguarding
- An understanding of working in the NHS
Skills
Essential
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager
- Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities.
Desirable
- Experience of caring in a health care setting
- Previous work in a health care setting
- Previous NHS experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent level qualification and / or equivalent relevant experience
- GCSEs in English and Maths at Grades 3-1 (or D-E or Level 1 Functional/Key Skills)
Desirable
- GCSEs in English and Maths at Grades 9-4 (or A*-C or Level 2 Functional/Key Skills)
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
