Clinical Support Worker - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time, permanent position in the Clinical Support Team at The Christie Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) Centre in Withington Manchester.

37.5hours over 5 days working shifts to cover the needs of the service. Example shifts include 7am-3pm and 11am-7pm. These may vary depending on work area.

The CSW assists the clinical teams in supporting patients whilst they are receiving treatment.

This includes assisting radiographers in the production, management and maintenance of radiotherapy immobilisation devices, liaising with patients, supporting patients by building a rapport, feeding back important information to the clinical team.

Some clinical duties will be required such as changing dressings, capturing and recording of patient clinical observations.

This role also includes a range of administrative duties using trust systems to capture and record information tracking and maintaining patient records.

Good IT skills in addition to the willingness and commitment to learn multiple trust IT systems are necessary.


Applicants should possess excellent communication skills as they will be supporting patients and carers of all ages, including a large number of paediatric patients and families travelling from all over the UK.

Applicants should have a strong team work ethic and be willing to interact with a range of professions.

As a novel service flexibility is essential to meet the needs of an evolving workload.

Therefore, a CSW will need to have a flexible attitude to work, with the ability to adapt when the service requires.

Current clinical hours of the service are covered by a range of shift patterns and are distributed evenly amongst the team.


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Communication Skills

  • Provides support to the department by ensuring accurate recording of treatment and planning data, organising and scheduling patient appointments, greeting and escorting patients and assisting patients with appointment queries.
  • To assist and support radiotherapy staff to support the patients' physical, clinical and emotional needs whilst attending. This includes care of postoperative patients, changing dressings, tracheostomy support, and working with patients that have communication difficulties due to their condition.
  • Provides and receives routine information using tact, empathetic and reassurance skills towards patients and carers.
  • Liaises between all Christie radiotherapy centers, host sites and community where appropriate
Knowledge, training and Experience

  • Uses knowledge of integrated clinical information system for case note tracking and collating of data for referrals.
  • Data input and radiotherapy completion tasks
  • Where applicable, provides retrieval of medical documents for clinical information including those from other Trusts
  • Complies with policies, procedures, rules, regulations and departmental protocols.
  • Production of suitable immobilisation equipment
  • Provide clinical support for radiotherapy anaesthetic and recovery areas.
  • Once training and competencies have been completed, working under the direction of the PBT radiographers to undertake routine and specifically identified tasks in order to support the running and organisation of clinical services in the PBT service once training and competencies have been completed.
Personal Skills

  • Liaises with the multidisciplinary team to ensure that adequate information and support is available to patients
  • Produces departmental statistics using appropriate systems, ensuring submission within given deadlines.
  • Uses analytical skills to make judgments on patient situations such as deciding when issues need to be escalated and support provided.
  • Cover the reception desk as needed, answering internal or external telephone calls.
  • Maintain accurate patient details in all the Christie patient systems, following the correct procedures for recording of information to ensure information is up to date for future reference and complies with the data protection act.
Planning and Organisation

  • Triage and management of booking forms, booking and scheduling of radiotherapy planning and treatment across all sites
  • Books patient transport where applicable and deals with transport queries
  • Booking and scheduling of physiotherapy and complimentary therapy and support services on site
  • Using patient management system, ensure all radiotherapy appointments are recorded on Medway.
  • Where appropriate use the Medway system to locate case notes for patients attending for Radiotherapy clinics, outpatient clinics or treatment

Responsibilities:


  • Is responsible for stock control in areas of work.
  • Is responsible for the production and processing of all relevant completion letters following a patient's treatment.
  • Creation of Follow up letters on patient's treatment completion.
  • Pretreatment imaging support
- Prepares patients for diagnostic procedures.

  • Provide continuity of support during the absence
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