Senior Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

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 topatients and their relatives
• To provide indirect support, as part of the Chemotherapy NursingTeam, to ensure that the area to which they are assigned functionseffectively.
• 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.

About us

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.

Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care, and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site. 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.