Senior Healthcare Support Worker

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading specialist cancer care center in Liverpool seeks a Senior Health Care Support Worker. The role involves providing hands-on care and supporting registered nurses within the Outpatient Department. Applicants should have excellent communication skills, experience in a healthcare setting, and a willingness to obtain relevant qualifications. This position offers both full-time and part-time opportunities alongside a supportive team environment focused on patient care and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Flexible, enthusiastic, and motivated individuals are encouraged to apply.
• Awareness of infection control and safeguarding processes is necessary.
• Experience in a healthcare setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on care and emotional support to patients.
• Perform phlebotomy, PICC, and Port access and care.
• Assist clinicians with endoscopic procedures.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Phlebotomy experience

Attention to detail

Understanding of confidentiality

Education

Good general education

Working towards National Care Certificate

Job description

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Senior Health Care Support Worker

Outpatients Department, CCC Liverpool, Aintree and Paddington

Full time and part time roles available

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Outpatient Department at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool, Aintree and Paddington sites. Applications are welcome from flexible, enthusiastic and motivated individuals.

The role involves working collaboratively with registered nurses, clinicians and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team within the Outpatient Department.

Outpatients currently support a wide variety of clinical teams and activities within the department including endoscope, ECG, phlebotomy, PICC & Port access and care, SACT assessment clinics. This offers our staff a varied working day and daily learning opportunities.

Excellent communication skills are essential and phlebotomy experience is desired.

Main duties of the job

The senior health care support worker role involves the undertaking of clerical duties; providing hands-on care, assistance and emotional support to patients and their relatives; performing phlebotomy, PICC and Port access and care; assisting the clinicians with endoscopic procedures, cleaning, safe handling and storage of the endoscopes; observations, urinalysis, BM recording, ECG recording; preparing for clinics and maintaining high standards of documentation and record keeping.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

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

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.

Employer name

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Address

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool