Clinical Support Worker - Emergency Department

Come and join our amazing team in ED at RLI.

An opportunity has arisen for additional Clinical Support Workers to join the Emergency Department Team at Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and motivated individuals, ideally with acute care experience, but this is not essential as training and support will be provided.

We have developed and grown so much over the last few years, we have introduced streaming and rapid assessment at the front door for a better patient experience and journey, which you will be involved in.

Shift system is in operation.

• Work in support of and under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN) and the Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), providing nursing care and assistance to patients within defined parameters specified by the RN.
• Record patient information.
• Provide basic patient care and document that care in the patient records.
• Take clinical observations.
• Provide minor injury treatments and plaster casts.

• Preferably with acute care experience.
• Enthusiastic, caring, and motivated.

We operate from three main hospitals – Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal – as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services. WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre that can help with a range of non‑life‑threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses. All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day cases, and inpatient surgery.

In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.