healthcare/NHS experience essential-what could count, do you reckon?

[Fillyjonk]

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have seen dietitic assistant post, which would be perfect atm. 15 hours which might perhaps be managable childcare wise.

BUT

right I have nothing, really, but always happy to talk it up

specific nothing:

3 years p/t care work-adults with learning disabilites. involve some administration of meds but...not much, if i am honest

um

2 weeks work experience in a genetics lab at barts when i was 16

plus
5 years at cab-legal advocacy-no thats not a goer, and other advocacy work. i dealt a lot with medical agencies but didn't work for them.

thing is, I am going to have to go and hassle my referees if I do apply (kind of want them on my side so don't want to if its utterly pointless.

opinions pleeese

[Fillyjonk]

omg have just looked further at job descriotion

its community work, vunerable groups, pre schoolers, under 25s

its MY FECKING JOB

they just don't know it

i can tick all the desirables, and all the essentials exc this one.

[Fillyjonk]

bump

[CountessDracula]

I would go for it

3 years in a care home even p/t is loads of experience!

[nailpolish]

does it say experience essential, or training would be given, or waht?

[preggerspoppet]

does it say specifically nhs experience?

[nailpolish]

i am assuming a dietetic assistant would have to know all about special diets, PEG feeds, TPN, NG feeding etc......?

[bristols]

Just apply. If they don't think you have enough experience, they won't interview you. You don't know if you don't try...

[CountessDracula]

job description for dietetic assistant

[preggerspoppet]

doh, just read thread title, I think you have bags of experience tbh.

go for it.

what happened to the nursing/midwifery plan?

don't you home ed filly? I remember you trying to recruit me... will you do both?

gosh I am nosey

[Fillyjonk]

no it actually doesn't seem so np

they say must be willing to work towards nvq 3 - fine by me

but regardless its community based, so more about promotion of healthy diet I think healthcare experience is essential. I am not really sure what they are after.

its paying around £13k if that helps

[nailpolish]

i think if you have a grasp of a healthy diet that would be all they would be looking for, tbh

i think the experience with adults with learning disabilities will count for a lot

good luck!

[Fillyjonk]

nursing/midwifery still on cards, as is HE

ok I will apply, sod it.

am hoping they won't notice one of my refernces is a bit old and skanky though...

[Fillyjonk]

oh ta np

truble is it was in peoples homes. but some of those homes looked like a ward

are you really a phlebotamist? can i be nosy and ask how on earth you learn to do such a thing? do you practice on yourself first? I have always wondered.

[nailpolish]

im a trained nurse filly, but im having a break from that just now and doing phlebotomy

so i learned to take bloods when i was a nurse

but if you went straight into phlebotomy you get one weeks training, they have fake arms with fake blood and veins you learn with!

then on day 2 you take bloods from the other students in the class

its easier than you think, i actually really really enjoy taking blood

you should contact your nearest hospital and find out if the have a phlebotomy staff bank, you could do a few hours a day

money is not too bad

[Fillyjonk]

really?

with nowt but a degree in dead languages they'd let me take blood?

seriously?

how would they know i wasn't a vampire?

[preggerspoppet]

I'm a nurse too, the worlds worst as I have a needle phobia -don't mind having injections or blood taken, but hate giving them!! it's usually ok though because for every one of me there is always a queue of nurses who love to jab!

[nailpolish]

most phebotomists in the hospital i work in are first year medical students who do a few hours a week to get some extra cash, there are a few phlebotomists who are full time and work in the clinics etc

i bet you would like it

[Fillyjonk]

nurses LOVE TO JAB?

[preggerspoppet]

oh yes, and I am a paed nurse

[nailpolish]

god i love giving injections and taking blood



another thing you could do is work in the lab where they analyse the bloods - sometimes i do that too - you just basically sort out the different bloods for different tests and put them in the machines, and read the results. etc

hours are variable

[Fillyjonk]

um

how does one get on this gravy train then? .

do i phone someone and tell them i like blood?

[nailpolish]

lol

just phone the personnel/human resources dept of the hospital

jobs like these are never really advertised, or if so usually internally

[3LoveHeartsAndNoMore]

how does phlebotomie pay?
I am asking, as I did learn it as a Nurse, but would be very willing to do the course, it's been such a long time that I did do it, lol....always loed taking bloods

[3LoveHeartsAndNoMore]

loved even

[Fillyjonk]

thanks np

its weird, I am incredibly nervous about all this. I am very scared of phoning and saying "please employ me" cos I have no idea how the NHS works and I really want to do it

if it was for a charity or local authority I would have no problem, I know how they work, but somehow the NHS seems official and for grown ups

right will put this on my list.