Dialysis Assistant

Are you a Healthcare Assistant with a Level 3 Health and Social Care Specific Qualification (NVQ, Apprenticeship, Diploma) or Equivalent experience seeking an exciting new opportunity to learn specialist skills in renal care?

Do you have the passion to provide outstanding patient experience and maintain high standards of care and dialysis treatment? 

We are seeking a helpful, tactful and meticulous individual whom will be able to follow rigorous procedures to join our clinic as a Dialysis Assistant in Crewe Dialysis Unit.

As a Dialysis Assistant you will be working under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will: 

• Look after individual patients, preparing dialysis equipment for treatment, monitoring vital signs and assessing, cleaning and redressing catheter sites as required. 

• Liaise with patients, their relatives and other visitors to the clinic. 

• Ensure that equipment is kept clean and supplies are well-stocked, safely stored and used efficiently.

• Keep documentation up-to-date.

• Administer medication when required.

This is a full time role of 37.5 hours a week. Current days are working various shifts between 06.30am to 18.00pm Monday to Saturday.

We are the leading provider of dialysis services to the NHS, operating 52 partnership dialysis units that together provide regular dialysis treatment to over 3,800 NHS patients in the UK.  We are part of a global company treating over 344,000 patients worldwide across over 4,000 clinics. 

We also operate 44 production sites on all continents to provide dialysis products such as dialysis machines, dialysers and related disposables.  1 in every 2 of all dialysis machines used around the globe are manufactured by Fresenius Medical Care and we are the 3rd largest medical devices company in the world.