Senior Healthcare Support Worker

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Healthcare Support Worker for its Clinical Decision Unit. This role involves working part-time alongside nurses to ensure quality patient care and safety in a leading cancer treatment facility in Liverpool. Candidates should be flexible, motivated, and eager to learn, contributing to a team that delivers exceptional cancer care.

Qualifications

• Good literacy & numeracy skills or willingness to obtain them.
• Awareness of confidentiality and infection control processes.
• Experience in a healthcare setting and caring for patients.

Responsibilities

• Work alongsideRegistered Nurses providing high standards of care.
• Assist in managing patients experiencing side effects of treatments.
• Support the healthcare team in delivering cancer care.

Skills

Confidentiality

Attention to Detail

Infection Control

Safeguarding Awareness

Education

National Care Certificate

Working towards clinical healthcare apprenticeship

Good general education

Job description

Due to UKVI guidelines, this role is not eligible for a Skilled Worker visa. Further information can be accessed here -https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Senior Healthcare Support Worker, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool Clinical Decision Unit/Hotline

Part time, Permanent postHours: Rotational Shifts (including nights) - Long Days 08:00-20:30, Nights 19:45-08:15

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region's Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust).

Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for aSenior Healthcare Assistantto work alongside registered nurses to provide the highest possible standard of care for patients and families. We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated individuals to undertake this new role and be willing to commit to further learning and development.

If you want to be part of a fantastic team and help support the Trust with our vision for providing the best cancer care in the country, then we want to hear from you.

CDU is a 10 bedded unit, running Monday to Friday. Our 24 hour Hotline Triage telephone advice line is a 24 hour a day, 7 day service. On CDU we care for patients who are experiencing side effects as a result of systemic anti-cancer treatments and radiotherapy treatment that require a medical assessment and possible admission to CCCL. The Unit accepts patients from both Solid Tumour and Haematological malignancy groups

The unit accepts patients requiring admission for management of side effects of systemic anti-cancer treatments and/or radiotherapy and symptom management.Patients requiring artificial airway management are also nursed on the Unit.

About us

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 -

KindEmpoweredResponsibleInclusive

Job 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 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

£24,625 to £25,674 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

158-25-105-CDU

Job locations

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool