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

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.

bump

I would go for it

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

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

does it say specifically nhs experience?

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

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...

job description for dietetic assistant

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

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

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!

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...

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.

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

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?

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!

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

nurses LOVE TO JAB?

oh yes, and I am a paed nurse

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

um

how does one get on this gravy train then? .

do i phone someone and tell them i like blood?

lol

just phone the personnel/human resources dept of the hospital

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

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

loved even

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.