The responsibilities below are applicable to all staff within the Trust:

Health and Safety

• Staff must be aware of individuals’ responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify, and report as necessary, any untoward incident or accident or potentially hazardous environment.

 

Infection Control

• Staff must wash their hands, or use alcohol gel, on entry and exit from all clinical areas and/or between each patient contact

• Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust

• Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health

 

Finance

• All staff are accountable for exercising economic and efficient use of the Trust financial and physical resources as well as ensuring the security of Trust property. All staff must also adhere at all times to statutory guidance within the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions and Standing Orders.

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Human Resources

• All staff are responsible for own professional development and participating in the Trust Performance Review Process

• Staff must at all times carry out their duties and responsibilities with due regard to the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy and are expected to promote and implement the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy.

• Staff must follow absence reporting procedures by phoning FirstCare for all sickness absences in line with Trust policies and procedures.

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Governance

• All staff are required to familiarise themselves, and comply, with the Trust’s policies and procedures.

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Information

• All staff are expected to adhere to the Data Security, email and internet policies that concerns their job role within the Trust

• Staff are expected to attend security and confidentiality training, arranged as and when required.

• If staff members have any matters of concern, they are welcome, and encouraged, to raise them with their Manager and/or Director.

• Staff should ensure that any information they record is accurate and correct, in both electronic and paper records as appropriate.

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No Smoking

• Staff are expected to observe the “No smoking” policy of the Trust.

 

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The post holder will therefore be expected to adopt a flexible attitude towards these duties, which may (after discussion) have to be varied subject to the needs of the department and in keeping with the general profile of the post.