Dialysis Care Assistant - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Ward 31 is a specialist Outpatient Department at the Freeman Hospital providing 47 dialysis stations for patients of all needs, the department is open 6 days a week from 07:00 until 00:30, providing haemodialysis for approximately 260 patients who attend 3 times weekly for treatment.


We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our ward team, to care for patients within this very busy department.


  • Interview Date 23/06/202
  • Full & Part Time Hours/Week


The job of dialysis care assistant entails a variety of duties working with patients, assisting nursing staff, and working with specialist machinery.

You must be flexible and be able to work within our shift pattern this will include being able to start work as early as 05:30 to prepare the department for the patients arriving at 7 am.


A good general education, good communication skills, good manual dexterity skills, time management, and the ability to work as part of a team are required for this post.

Full in-service training allows staff to develop practical skills and experience within this field of nursing.


Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


Rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
- represented groups.

  • To abide by Trust policies and procedures.
  • To assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care.
  • Maintain patients' privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner.
  • Be an effective part of the multidisciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
  • Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks 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, redetermined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
  • Assist with admin & clerical duties as required.


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.
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