IVAS HCA (Vascular Access Technician)

Job Overview

To work as part of the Vascular Access & IV therapy Services (IVAS) Team Vascular Access Service on the Frimley site to help facilitate the daily running of the vascular access service.

Working pattern will be Monday to Friday 8am until 4pm.

Main duties of the job

To Support and work in conjunction with IVAS team in the delivery of the vascular access service, working under the vascular access clinical nurse specialists, on the Frimley site.

The aim of this post is to support the vascular access team in managing the difficult IV access patients on the wards who require ultrasound guided cannulation, venepuncture and midline insertion.

The post holder will work independently with the support of the registered team, delivering a reactive difficult IV access service, supporting early hospital discharge and reducing complication associated with central venous catheters and blood stream infections. The post holder will work with EPIC to schedule outpatient lists and book, admit and discharge patient into the IVAS service. They will also document the procedures they undertake in EPIC on the LDA as part of their role.

The post holder will be given training in the use of ultrasound guided cannulation and venepuncture and will be expected to become an expert in this procedure.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Work within the vascular access team as the vascular access technician who can be called upon to any clinical area of the hospital to use ultrasound to perfume difficult venepuncture, place a peripheral cannula or midline.
• Support the IVAS infusion unit in gaining vascular access for difficult IV access patients who require IVAS infusions and venipuncture.
• The post holder will be a champion of vessel health and preservation, be an expert in placing peripheral vascular access devices and recognizing basic complications
  
  

Person specification

clinical skills

Essential criteria

• venepuncture
• cannulation
• ultrasound cannulation and venepuncture
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience working in vascular access team
  
  

personnel skills

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills
  
  

Computer skills

Essential criteria

• Experience working with EPIC and EPR
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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