Health Care Support Worker Children's Diabetes Team - Grantham, United Kingdom - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Grantham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To assist the Children's Diabetes Nursing Teams in the provision of direct clinical care to ensure an equitable service for children and families within the United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust catchment area

To support the development of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust Children's Diabetes service

To attend the complications due to excessive weight (CEW) clinic, once a month, at either Boston or Lincoln, to support the specialist nurses from the tertiary centre.

Undertake independent home visits to deliver supplies, collect HbA1c samples, and support families and to carry out clinical care under indirect and direct supervision of one of the registered nurses.

Ensure appropriate prioritisation of work, in collaboration with nurses.

Assist with distraction for procedures and chaperoning as necessary.

Assist with clinical care of Children and Young People (CYP), in educational settings.

Assist in Diabetes clinic settings within the Trust.

To attend the complications due to excessive weight (CEW) clinic, once a month, at either Boston or Lincoln, to support the Consultant and specialist nurses from the tertiary centre.

To carry out all tasks and activities within the allocated clinic time.

Participate in the collection of peripheral venepuncture sampling for children on the caseload, and correctly labelling samples prior to delivery to the Pathology Laboratory.

Undertake venepuncture course as required.

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.