Senior Healthcare Support Worker

Job summary

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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