Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Preston Hospital
Town Preston
Salary £24,625 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 20/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 28/04/2025
Band 3
Job overview
Are you looking for a motivating and rewarding career? Do you thrive on a challenge and want to make a difference to patients? Come and join our enthusiastic and innovative Gastroenterology team!
Liver cancer is the fastest-rising cause of cancer-related deaths in the UK. The most common form of primary liver cancer is hepatic cellular carcinoma (HCC) accounting for 85% of all primary liver cancers.
The benefit of HCC US Surveillance is only realised with regular attendance.
Patients who are at risk of HCC come from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds, including those from undeserved communities.
If you are interested in this position, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The role would include the following, however this is not exhaustive, as this is a new and developing role in the team:
1. Some of the role would incorporate face to face patient contact, however there is a substantial element that would be computer/admin based.
2. Attendance on the clinical van in the community supporting the lead hepatitis nurse to identify cirrhotic patients who will need HCC surveillance.
3. Performing venepuncture and dry blood spot tests.
4. Interaction and discussion with patients who may need support to attend 6 monthly ultrasound scans and blood tests, particularly recognizing those patients who come from undeserved communities.
5. Performing Fibroscan in the community as well as in hepatology clinics in the hospital to identify cirrhotic, at-risk patients.
6. Assisting the liver nurse with the monitoring of patients who are having hepatic cellular carcinoma surveillance.
7. Running a 2-weekly report using PACS to identify patients who may need abdominal ultrasound scans for HCC surveillance.
8. Work closely with the liver nurse to identify any patients who are high risk and may need further imaging.
9. Keeping the liver surveillance databases up to date.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide good quality personalised care in accordance with agreed local and national standards.
Performs basic nursing care to a high quality standard which meets the individual needs of patients.
Has achieved and maintained core and specific competencies as per HCA Development pathway and by manager.
Demonstrates compassion by recognising and responding to individual needs in a warm, thoughtful, sensitive and helpful way.
Proactively engages with patients, relatives and carers to seek their views, and gain co-operation and agreement.
Receives positive feedback from patients/relatives/team members/students.
Identifies and reports patients needs not included in the care plan, to the nurse in charge.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
* GCSE Maths & English grade C or above / Grade 4 - 9 OR Functional/Key skills level 2 numeracy and Functional/Key Skills level 2 literacy
* BNCS or NVQ / Internal Level 2 training programme
* Level 3 QCF diploma (Qualification Credit Framework) in healthcare / NVQ level 3
Knowledge & Experience
* Previous experience of working in an acute health care or related setting
* Understanding of health and safety issues within healthcare
* Understanding of concept and application of confidentiality
* Understanding of the role of a band 3 senior HCA
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
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