Healthcare Support Worker - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical support worker to join our well established Oncology Outpatient Unit Team, this post is a one year secondment.


The post holder will join the existing Team to provide support and care for patients attending the Oncology Outpatient Department.

They will work with colleagues within the Cancer Centre in supporting patients during their appointments, providing individualised, compassionate and informed patient care.

They will support the Senior Nursing Team to develop the Service to meet the needs of the patient group and of the Trust.

You should possess excellent communication and organisational skills and be prepared to develop clinical skills, including venepuncture. You should be visible and accessible with quality and standards as their priority. They will need to be flexible and resilient in order to cope with the demands of the role.


This post will require you to work 37.5 hours per week to ensure the service is covered Monday-Friday Although this job is based at the Maidstone site it may be necessary on rare occasions to travel to the Pembury site for training/meetings.

Job share will be considered.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.


The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs.

We work from two main clinical sites:
Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury.

Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.


We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.


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