Healthcare Support Worker - Liverpool, United Kingdom - The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

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Health Care Assistant - Full Time Role 37.5 hours per week


An exciting opportunity has arisen for Healthcare Assistants to 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.


The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust provides highly-specialist cancer care for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.


In June 2020, we opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool, our spectacular new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter, providing state-of-the-art facilities as part of a £162m investment.

Alongside our flagship hospital in Liverpool, we also have two other main cancer centres:

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Wirral, providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care on the Clatterbridge Health Campus in Bebington, Wirral

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Aintree, our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree University Hospital site


Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we 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.


Working with leading experts from the University of Liverpool, we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments.


The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.


We take an active responsibility for ensuring systems, policies and processes are in place to safeguard children, young people and adults.

We support the national and local safeguarding agenda, including local arrangements for the protection of children young person and adults at risk.

Assisting the patient with eating and drinking

  • Assisting the patient with bathing toileting and dressing
  • Assisting the patient with catheter and stoma care
  • Performing, recording and reporting base line observations e.g.
Temperature, pulse, blood pressure, routine urine testing.

  • Escorting patients/relatives
  • Weighing and measuring patients
  • Receiving and directing patients and visitors
  • Responding to telephone enquiries and taking messages
  • In the absence of the ward clerk: filing, form filling, photocopying
  • Stock monitoring
  • Routine ordering of ward supplies
  • Unpacking and storing ward supplies
  • Disposing of ward waste appropriately
  • Cleaning and storage of ward equipment
  • Tidying and ad hoc cleaning of spillages

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