Dialysis Assistant

Frimley, England, United Kingdom

7/18/2025

Job Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join our renal unit at Frimley Park Hospital and to develop into the role of a Dialysis Assistant, Band 3 .

We are looking for an enthusiastic full-time Band 3 Dialysis Assistant with the qualification of NVQ level 3 in health and social care or equivalent.

The candidates are expected to have experience for 1 year in a hospital environment dealing with the general public. They need to be flexible and able to rotate on to days and weekends.

You will be looking after patients with chronic renal dialysis needs requiring an inpatient stay and those with severe Acute Kidney Injury with the support of registered nurses.

In Return We Will Offer You:

• A full induction programme
• A renal training programme
• A competency based appraisal system
  
  

We positively promote staff development with the support of the Practice Development team, and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills.

Our shift pattern is 07.00 -19.30 for Long day shifts, 07:00 – 15:00 for Early shifts and 12.45-20.45 for Late shifts. There will be occasional night shifts available and the shift pattern is 19.45 – 08:15.

Candidates who are interested in this exciting and challenging world of Renal Nursing, please contact Sijo Stephen (Senior Charge Nurse) on 03006 133575 and arrange an informal visit to the ward.

Main duties of the job

We are a small 8 bedded ward, which takes great pride in being open and friendly. We also have an extremely supportive multidisciplinary team and a group of consultants that are always ready to support their staff.

We nurse patients with both acute and chronic kidney injury. Patients with acute kidney injury are admitted to our ward from all specialities within the Trust. This allows a great deal of exposure to all areas of medical and surgical care and as such we are always looking to recruit staff from all specialities, even those with little or no renal experience.

All we ask is that you have passion and pride in the care you give to your patients. We set high standards and will expect you to meet these.

For our chronic patients we offer both haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, these are skills that can not be learned on other wards in the Trust.

As with all areas that treat chronic patients we get to know our patients over multiple hospitals stay. This exposure lets you get to know the real person and not just their illness. We have to say that this is one of the real gems of this ward and Renal nursing.

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

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full job responsibilities.

Some Of The Main Role Requirements Include:

• With minimal supervision assist members of the multi-disciplinary team to maintain patient’s hygiene, mobility and nutritional and emotional needs.
• Promote the rehabilitation of patients maintaining Health and Safety.
• Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical duties.
• Promote equality for all individuals taking into consideration their cultural and religious beliefs, customs and values.
• Supervise and develop less experienced care assistants when necessary.
  
  

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent
  
  

Essential

Essential criteria

• Good general education
  
  

Essential

Essential criteria

• Experienced for 1 year in a hospital environment.
  
  

Desirable

Desirable criteria

• Experienced in renal replacement therapy
  
  

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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