Job summary
- Main area
- Chemotherapy Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 158-24-095-LCTU-A
- Employer
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Health Care Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
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Job overview
Previous applicants need not apply
Senior Health Care Support Worker, Chemotherapy Treatment Unit, CCC Liverpool 37.5 hours, Permanent.
8-6 Monday to Friday with the potential of Saturday working in the future.
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to work alongside and support our chemotherapy team. The post provide support to Registered Nurses and other members of the multi-professional team to deliver nursing care and treatment within the out-patient chemotherapy environment and includes the chemotherapy network clinics.
The Senior Health Care Support Worker role also involves the undertaking of clerical duties; providing hands-on care, assistant and emotional support to patients and their relatives; performing phlebotomy, perform observations T.P.R. BM urinalysis and to monitor blood transfusions patients, record observations and maintain documentation.
Excellent communication skills are essential and cannulation experience is desired. The successful candidate should have efficient computer skills to ensure that patients are correctly clerked and details inputted are accurate. The main skills that will achieved through training are access of central venous access devices. General healthcare duties include supporting patients and caring for them and their ADLs
Main duties of the job
This position would suit a friendly, happy and approachable person that has some experience in healthcare. Due to the nature of patient's treatment they may feel comfortable talking to HCSW as they can be the first person they meet when arriving on the unit.
Including:
- To assist chemotherapy nursing staff
- To undertake clerical duties
- To provide hands-on care, assistant and emotional support to
patients and their relatives - To provide indirect support, as part of the Chemotherapy Nursing
Team, to ensure that the area to which they are assigned functions
effectively. - To drive to network clinics and provide the same support and duties in these outreach clinics
- To perform phlebotomy, perform observations T.P.R. BM urinalysis
- To monitor blood transfusions patients, record observations and maintain documentation
- To perform cannulation when necessary.
- IT skills and knowledge required.
Working for our organisation
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.
Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.
Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.
We are -
Kind
Empowered
Responsible
Inclusive
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about the exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good general education/ Literacy & Numeracy or willing to work towards obtaining
- Working towards or prepared to work towards obtaining an apprenticeship in clinical healthcare.
- Holds National Care Certificate
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level 3 (working towards/or willingness to work towards)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness and understanding of importance of confidentiality
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Demonstrate interest in healthcare services
- Caring / supportive attitude
- Knowledge of Infection Control processes
- Knowledge of Safeguarding processes
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in a healthcare setting
- Experience of caring for patients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachael Gregory
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01513188548
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