Healthcare Assistant Technical Officer

Using your experience of working with patients, the role requires that excellent and compassionate care is provided during the admission, monitoring, and discharge of patients. Within our sleep diagnostics department you will also learn to, and then with minimal supervision set up patients for complex sleep studies. This is supervised by senior Healthcare Scientists.

When working at night you will be expected to monitor patients' wellbeing and be asked to maintain the quality of some biological signals as well as complete task lists relative to the day or night shift requirements. Implicit in the role, the holder will need to work with a multi-disciplinary team within the department as well as liaise with other departments as needed. There is a need for the post holder to be able to work autonomously and manage time and tasks effectively.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role are mostly ward based.

The patient work includes telephone preadmission as well as face to face admission and safety assessments completed as required. During admission expectation of the role includes, with minimal supervision, the setup of patients undergoing complex sleep studies.

During night shifts patients will be monitored for safety as well as some aspects of data quality including checking of the sleep study signals. At night equipment is set up for outpatient clinics the next day among other tasks.

Day shift tasks will include patient care and ward activities as well as collaborating with Healthcare Scientists to undertake daytime patient testing.

The role expects procedures involved with patient discharge to be completed with guidance.

Being led by the Healthcare Scientist team the role requires you to learn to download data from sleep monitoring devices.

There is an expectation that this role will be actively involved in the maintenance of infection control, departmental audits and health and safety assessments. In addition, timely documentation of all relevant information on electronic notes systems is required. There is a small amount of administration involved in the role.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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