Employer: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59
Senior Health Care Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Please note that applications are accepted only by completion of our application form. If you have any needs that prevent you from applying in this way and participating in our online recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0151 5565176 or ccf-tr.recruitment@nhs.net at the earliest opportunity to ensure that support can be provided. Adjustments can be made for you during application and interview.
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close any vacancies prior to the specified closing date; therefore you are advised to submit your completed application form as early as possible.
If you do not receive confirmation that you have been shortlisted for interview, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. It is with regret that we are unable to provide feedback to non-shortlisted candidates.
Overseas candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing their circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website.
Job overview
Senior Health Care Support Worker, Chemotherapy Treatment Unit, CCC Liverpool, part-time 28.5 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 provides 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 undertaking clerical duties, providing hands-on care, assisting and emotional support to patients and their relatives, performing phlebotomy, performing observations (T.P.R., B.M., urinalysis), monitoring blood transfusion patients, recording observations, and maintaining 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 be achieved through training include access to 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 patients' treatment, they may feel comfortable talking to HCSW as they can be the first person they meet when arriving on the unit.
Including:
* Assisting chemotherapy nursing staff
* Undertaking clerical duties
* Providing hands-on care, assisting and emotional support to patients and their relatives
* Providing indirect support, as part of the Chemotherapy Nursing Team, to ensure that the area to which they are assigned functions effectively.
* Driving to network clinics and providing the same support and duties in these outreach clinics
* Performing phlebotomy, performing observations (T.P.R., B.M., urinalysis)
* Monitoring blood transfusion patients, recording observations, and maintaining documentation
* Performing 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 a 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 this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
* 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
Knowledge
* Awareness and understanding of the importance of confidentiality
* Accuracy and attention to detail
* Demonstrate interest in healthcare services
* Knowledge of Infection Control processes
* Knowledge of Safeguarding processes
Experience
* Experience working in a healthcare setting
* Experience of caring for patients
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited for an interview via email. Please ensure you regularly check your emails (including junk folders) following your application and let us know if you have any problems. If you would prefer for us to communicate with you in a different way, or need adjustments to the interview process, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0151 556 5176 or ccf-tr.recruitment@nhs.net.
The cost of processing a new DBS application is met by the successful applicant. DBS costs are recovered via salary deduction following commencement in post - further details including cost are available from the Recruitment Team. It is a Trust recommendation that candidates requiring a DBS check subscribe to the DBS Update Service - further details are available here - https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service. Candidates who withdraw post-DBS submission will be invoiced for the full cost of the check including administration fee.
The Trust takes active responsibility for meeting national guidance and legal requirements in relation to our Safeguarding Policy, including local arrangements for the protection of adults at risk.
The Trust is committed to providing high standards of both patient and staff experience. To support us in doing this the Trust, in partnership with Trade Unions, has developed and embedded key values and behaviours that all staff are required to demonstrate throughout their employment. The Trust's values and behaviours support the Trust Vision 'to provide the best cancer care to the people we serve' and our Mission 'to improve health and wellbeing through compassionate, safe and effective cancer care'.
We promote and support diversity in our workforce. The Trust has staff networks for LGBTQ+, disability and long-term conditions, international and ethnically diverse staff, and a menopause network.
The Trust also holds Disability Confident Level 2 Status and provides supporting policies and processes to enable staff with disabilities and long-term conditions to work in a way that best meets their needs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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