Catheter Lab and Bronchoscopy Assistant (CLA)

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The role would suit a Health Care Support Worker who would join multi-skilled health care professionals who support clinical and non-clinical practices in the department aiming for high quality patient care and experience.

This is an exciting and challenging role and we are looking for motivated self-reliant staff. In return we can offer you training and supervision to gain competencies.You should be in receipt of a Care Certificate and have previous NHS care experience.

This position will be paid as a Band 2 and following successful completion of the Care Certificate and Trust competencies you will move to Band 3 pay step 1.

Job responsibilities

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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