Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 214-UEC-7205420
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton-In-Ashfield
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Support Worker - Emergency Department
NHS AfC: Band 3
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here annd know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking enthusiastic, hard-working and approachable individuals who are dedicated to providing high standards of holistic, quality care to join our team within the Emergency Department as a Clinical Support Worker.
As a Clinical Support Worker in our Emergency Department, you will be at the heart of delivering essential care and support to patients during times of critical need. This is a highly rewarding role where you will assist in providing emergency care, ensuring that patients and their families receive the best possible experience in sometimes challenging and fast-paced circumstances.
In this role, you will be expected to demonstrate empathy, professionalism and dedication in every aspect of your work. You'll support a multidisciplinary team in caring for patients with a wide range of conditions, contributing to the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of patients. By joining our Emergency Department, you will play an important role in a team committed to delivering compassionate, patient-centered care.
This is a 24hour service and will be expected to work a various shift pattern.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Must understand basic requirements for individualised personal care
- Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of Safeguarding issues
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Care Certificate
- Apprenticeship Level 3 in Care or equivalent vocational experience
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Ability to attend 3 day clinical induction
- Committed to attending further training and development as identified
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate clear and robust verbal and written English communication skills
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Previous care work experience
- Previous face-to-face customer care experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a hospital setting
Contractual
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach
- Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Chadbourne
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623622515
- Additional information
For further details and to arrange an informal visit please contact Terri Exell on 01623 622515 ext. 6402 or via e-mail on [email protected]
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