Apprentice Clinical Support Worker - Theatres
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF MORECAMBE BAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Barrow in Furness (LA14 4LF)
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 2 September 2025)
Posted on 21 August 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic person to join our multi-disciplinary team in providing care for patients during their time in the Operating Theatre Department. You will help prepare theatre, support qualified staff with care of patients through all areas and participate in cleaning of clinical and staff areas.
- Wage
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£18,618.60 a year
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This post will be paid as a training post in line with Annex 21 18623.pdf (nhsemployers.org)
- Training course
- Senior healthcare support worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Participation in provision of a 24-hour service including shift work, on-call, weekends and night duty is a requirement of this post.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Saturday 1 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Work as an effective team member within the multidisciplinary team and support continued team development in order to achieve desired outcomes that promote the well-being of patients
- Assist the Registered nurse (RN) in the delivery of care to a designated patient group, demonstrating an ability to prioritise such care
- Determine the comfort of patients by talking and listening to them and building up a rapport
- Assist in providing personal hygiene of patients who are unable to do so themselves, including washing, bathing and assistance with using the toilet
- Assist in feeding/ giving drinks to patients who are unable to do so for themselves and complete food and fluid charts where necessary
- Ensure patient dignity and individual patient needs are met
JOB DESCRIPTION
“Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work”
V 03-01-2024 Band 2-7
- Ensure that all care provided by yourself is documented appropriately
- Report any changes in patient condition to the RN
- Support RN’s in providing information and advice on health promotion
- Instigate emergency procedures: raising alarm 2222/999 and assisting in emergencies under the direction/delegation of the RN.
- Act as an effective role model for all team/unit colleagues
- Assist in ensuring that effective channels are used to canvas the views and concerns of all patients and carers
- Support the RN in providing care after death
- Carry out a limited range of clinical care duties relevant to the area of work provided there is the appropriate training and maintenance of competency in place. For example (not limited to):
simple dressings/procedures, venepuncture, blood glucose monitoring, patient observations, performing ECG, bladder scanning, pre and post-operative observations, urinary catheter
care/removal and pressure ulcer prevention - Record accurate fluid intake and output, assisting the RN to calculate an accurate fluid balance
- Respond and support in unpredictable care situations ensuring patient safety is maintained, for example when patients display challenging behaviours
GENERAL DUTIES
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining high standards of cleanliness, following Trust Policy to provide a safe environment for care provision, ensuring that all patient care areas
including isolation areas are cleaned appropriately and specialist equipment is cleaned according to Trust policy e.g. drug fridges, incubators, commodes and report any deficits - Ensure safe and proper use of equipment such as hoists and slide sheets
- Carry out spot cleaning to ensure spillages are dealt with swiftly and efficiently and coordinate the specialist cleaning of surfaces and furnishings
- Ensure that all waste, including soiled linen and sharps, is correctly segregated, labelled and stored according to Trust Policy
- In hospital/clinic settings, prepare the clean bed area/chair space ready for the patient, handling clean linen according to Trust Policy
- Communicate with colleagues and the public and respond to requests for general information and receive and pass on information to others, maintaining confidentiality
- Demonstrate knowledge of stock ordering and order relevant stores, e.g. top-up as instructed by the team leader
- Collect, receive and transfer items e.g. delivery and collection of lab specimens, pharmacy items, patient movement to and from other depts
- Respect the privacy and dignity of patients whilst carrying out housekeeping duties
Where you'll work
Furness General Hospital
Dalton Lane
Barrow in Furness
LA14 4LF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DYNAMIC TRAINING UK LIMITED
Training course
Senior healthcare support worker (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Core: Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
- Core: Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
- Core: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and non-discriminatory person-centred care and support with individuals’ established consent.
- Core: Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Core: Support individuals to make informed and positive lifestyle choices.
- Core: Actively seek out and act on opportunities to support individuals to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
- Core: Recognise and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing.
- Core: Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and well-being.
- Core: Promote and monitor access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
- Core: Communicate with individuals, their families, carers and others in the workplace using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
- Core: Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
- Core: Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using infection prevention and control techniques including hand washing, sanitisation, disinfection and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Core: Maintain the safe supply, storage, use and disposal of supplies and equipment.
- Core: Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
- Core: Take appropriate action in response to concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
- Core: Perform basic life support techniques.
- Core: Recognise and respond to potential conflict, challenging behaviour or an escalating situation.
- Core: Undertake own training and development activities and contribute to the training and development of others.
- Core: Participate in appraisal to support professional development.
- Core: Reflect on and develop your own practice.
- Core: Record and store information related to individuals securely, including the safe use of technology.
- Core: Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality, duty of confidence and disclosure.
- Core: Participate in and support others with quality improvement activities in the workplace.
- Core: Use investigatory techniques to source evidence to validate and improve the delivery of care and support within own scope of practice.
- Core: Critically appraise sources of information and apply to practice.
- Core: Provide leadership and act as a role model for others within the scope of own role.
- Core: Contribute to mentoring and supervision of others in the workplace within the scope of own role.
- Core: Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
- Options 1 and 5: Adult nursing support and children and young people support: Support individuals with activities of daily living to develop and maintain their independence in line with their desired. outcomes and plan of care.
- Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Assist with tissue viability risk assessments and manage pressure areas.
- Options 1 and 5: Adult nursing support and children and young people support: Assist with wound care in line with the care plan.
- Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Obtain and test specimens in line with the care plan.
- Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Provide care and support for individuals and their family during the end-of-life phase.
- Options 1, 2, 5 and 6: Adult nursing support, maternity support, children and young people support and allied health professional therapy support: Contribute to signposting to relevant agencies and, discharge or transfer of individuals between services, in line with their care plan.
- Options 1, 2, 4 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support, mental health support and children and young people support: Recognise and respond to deteriorations in physical health, mental health and wellbeing.
- Option 1: Adult nursing support: Support adults to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing and for managing their own condition.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Assist the midwife with teaching, feeding and hygiene needs of babies-parenting skills and antenatal and postnatal exercise.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Assist health care professionals with antenatal and newborn screening and provide information to parents about immunisation activities.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Provide support to the maternity team by maintaining the supply of resources, instruments and equipment.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Support personal care such as providing care for women with urethral catheters.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Identify the baby and provide wristband or label in line with local security procedures.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Care for the physical needs of babies by undertaking routine healthy baby observations and reporting any abnormalities.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Support parents and carers to meet the developmental, nutritional and hygiene needs of babies.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Work in partnership with families and other support services to support individuals in difficult circumstances, bereavement and loss.
- Option 2: Maternity support: Provide support to the midwife and others in the multi-disciplinary team in an emergency situation during pregnancy, labour, birth or the postnatal period.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Complete pre- and post-operative checklists.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Support the surgical team to maintain the sterile field.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Support and monitor the pre-medicated, sedated and unconscious individual.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Measure and record an individual’s body fluid balance.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Move, position and transport individuals and specialist equipment before, during and after surgery.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Prepare the clinical environment and provide surgical instrumentation and supplementary items for the surgical team.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Carry out counts for swabs, sharps, instruments and disposable items and take action if something is missing.
- Option 3: Theatre support: Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens or blood products.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Use strategies and tools to promote mental wellbeing and to support individuals with mental ill health.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Observe, record and report changes and barriers, using proactive approaches to manage behaviour which challenges.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Take an active approach in supporting individuals to manage their condition.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Build, monitor and sustain therapeutic relationships with individuals, carers and their families.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Promote a recovery-based approach that enables the individual to manage their condition.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Enable and empower individuals to actively participate in society and recognise the impact of mental health on them and others.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Identify situations of risk to yourself or others and take action including seeking support.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Involve the individual, carers and family members in risk management processes.
- Option 4: Mental health support: Review and promote your own mental health and wellbeing.
- Option 5: Children and young people support: Support the development of children and young people through therapeutic play and learning.
- Option 5: Children and young people support: Support children and young people through transitions by enabling shared or independent decision making.
- Option 5: Children and young people support: Support parents, families and carers to meet the needs of children and young people.
- Option 5: Children and young people support: Support children and young people before, during or after diagnostic, clinical or therapeutic procedures.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Provide therapeutic support in line with care plans to encourage independence, self-management and skills for everyday life.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Assist with undertaking clinical risk assessments and management plans.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Recognise the impact of mental or physical capacity, health condition, learning disability or overall wellbeing on the therapeutic or clinical task or intervention and when to adapt.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Enable individuals to meet optimum potential.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Facilitate group sessions to support health and well-being of individuals or communities.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Support people to engage in the community and access activities or resources in line with their treatment goals.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Identify, order or fit therapeutic equipment and resources in line with the individual’s care plan.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Use equipment and resources therapeutically in a safe way in line with local policy and procedure.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Demonstrate and teach the safe and appropriate use of therapeutic equipment and resources.
- Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Complete safety checks for therapeutic equipment and resources, following protocols to report issues or make adaptations if appropriate.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Assist and support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe and effective operation and maintenance of the imaging environment.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe flow of individuals through the imaging environment, recognising and complying with current legislation and best practice.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Prepare individuals for imaging procedures, including those that maybe pre-medicated, sedated or unconscious.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support and position individuals during imaging procedures, including those that maybe pre-medicated, sedated or unconscious.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support practitioners with the preparation and administration of medicines and contrast agents within the scope of own role.
- Option 7: Diagnostic Imaging Support: Administer medicines supplied by a registered practitioner within the scope of own role.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Insert, flush and remove cannulas in line with local protocols and within the scope of own role.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Provide after care for individuals following imaging procedures.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Assist practitioners in setting up and maintaining aseptic or clean area in the imaging environment.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe delivery of an imaging service.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Review and promote the health and wellbeing of self and others, including mental health.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Assist with undertaking clinical risk assessments and management plans.
- Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Recognise the impact of mental or physical capacity, health condition, learning disability or overall wellbeing on the therapeutic or clinical task or intervention and when to adapt.
- Core: Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
- Core: Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
- Core: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and non-discriminatory person-centred care and support with individuals’ established consent.
- Core: Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Core: Support individuals to make informed and positive lifestyle choices.
- Core: Actively seek out and act on opportunities to support individuals to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
- Core: Recognise and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing.
- Core: Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and well-being.
- Core: Promote and monitor access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
- Core: Communicate with individuals, their families, carers and others in the workplace using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
- Core: Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
- Core: Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using infection prevention and control techniques including hand washing, sanitisation, disinfection and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Core: Maintain the safe supply, storage, use and disposal of supplies and equipment.
- Core: Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
- Core: Take appropriate action in response to concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
- Core: Perform basic life support techniques.
- Core: Recognise and respond to potential conflict, challenging behaviour or an escalating situation.
- Core: Undertake own training and development activities and contribute to the training and development of others.
- Core: Participate in appraisal to support professional development.
- Core: Reflect on and develop your own practice.
- Core: Record and store information related to individuals securely, including the safe use of technology.
- Core: Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality, duty of confidence and disclosure.
- Core: Participate in and support others with quality improvement activities in the workplace.
- Core: Use investigatory techniques to source evidence to validate and improve the delivery of care and support within own scope of practice.
- Core: Critically appraise sources of information and apply to practice.
- Core: Provide leadership and act as a role model for others within the scope of own role.
- Core: Contribute to mentoring and supervision of others in the workplace within the scope of own role.
- Core: Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
Training schedule
The successful candidate will be studying for the 'Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker (Theatres Pathway)' Apprenticeship and will be expected to attend college and complete coursework and other study as the Apprenticeship requires. 20% of their working week will be given to accommodate their apprenticeship study.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) Lancaster and Westmorland General (WGH) 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 Department and Critical/ Coronary Care Units and various Consultant Lead 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 Outpatient, Diagnostics, Therapies, Day Case, Inpatient Surgery. Community Facilities provide a local Outreach Service and Diagnostics within Morecambe Bay. Our Community Services for adults are provided in people’s homes, Community Centres, Clinics, GP Practices, Community Hospitals and our General Hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independence, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, health educations, advice and support.
https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/our-trust/we-are-uhmbt (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
There will be many opportunities for career progression following the completion of this apprenticeship. This may include further apprenticeships such as the Nursing Associate Apprenticeship or the Operating Department Practitioner Apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF MORECAMBE BAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Jane Bayliff
jane.bayliff@mbht.nhs.uk
01229 403854
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338446.
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Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 2 September 2025)
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