Skip to main content
Please wait, loading

Job summary

Main area
Renal
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week, working 37.5 hours per week between hours of 8 am and 10 pm on a rota basis over 7 days per week)
Job ref
164-7523438
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
CAPD/ Renal Home Therapies Unit, City Campus
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/12/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Community Dialysis Healthcare Assistant

Band 3

Job overview

PLEASE NOTE FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF VEHICLE ARE ESSENTIAL.

We are looking to recruit energetic, enthusiastic and reliable individuals to work with a team of healthcare assistants visiting patients at home to prepare and set up the patients peritoneal dialysis machine or to set up manual peritoneal dialysis.   Patients receive at least one visit per day from one of the team, including at weekends and in the evenings.  The working pattern includes regular weekend work and late shifts.  Shifts are between 8 am and 10 pm on a rota basis.  

This is a busy but rewarding service, and the applicant needs to be a reliable individual.

Full training will be given to the successful candidates but renal experience is desirable.

It is essential that you have a full clean driving license and have access to a reliable car

Main duties of the job

We are a team of nurses caring for patients undergoing dialysis treatment at home.

We teach patients how to do their own dialysis at home and then monitor and support the patient and their family at home

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents as attached to this advert.

  • Traveling to patients throughout Nottinghamshire, full driving license therefore required
  • Setting up patients dialysis machine in their home 
  • Changing and organising patient dialysis stock
  • Carrying out manual peritoneal dialysis fluid exchanges when requested.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities. 

PLEASE NOTE FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF VEHICLE ARE ESSENTIAL.

Key points are:

  • To visit patients in their homes and prepare their automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine
  • Visit patients at home, at night, and commence their dialysis treatment when required
  • Visit patients in the morning to disconnect them from their dialysis machine
  • Carry out peritoneal dialysis fluid changes in the patients home when required
  • Monitor patients stock of dialysis equipment, carrying out stock counts when requested
  • Changing patient dressings to their dialysis tube
  • To work in the Home Therapies Unit assisting the qualified nurses
  • To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team
  • Following appropriate training and assessment, undertake clinical and non-clinical duties in support of the registered nurses in the Home Therapies Unit
  • When required, to help on the Home Therapies Unit supporting clinics and daycase patients

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • experience as a healthcare assistant in the NHS
  • Full uk driving licence with access to reliable car
Desirable criteria
  • previous renal dialysis experience
  • previous experience working in the community

Lifting and handling experience

Essential criteria
  • Up to date moving and handling competency

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Care Leaver CovenantNHS Rainbow badgeCareLeaver Covenantadded for NUH

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Pippa Law
Job title
CAPD/ Renal Home Therapies Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0115 9627705
Additional information

Informal visits are welcomed. 

Please feel free to contact Pippa Law or Davinder Konstandi to discuss the role informally in further detail .

Apply online nowAlert me to similar vacancies