[ref. w59789602] Urology Specialist Healthcare Support Worker | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
The Urology Diagnostics Unit is a newly set up specialist unit, primarily concerned with the investigation and treatment of patients with Urological conditions, both benign and malignant.
This role will support with the new clinics that are run on the unit, whilst also carrying out the more established clinics of uroflowmetry and urodynamics.
The successful candidate will have a variety of extended skills including being able to assist with cystoscopy, venepuncture, catheterisation, with an ability to work as part of a team but to also run their own clinic independently.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with good organisational skills to join Urology team as a Health Care Support Worker with specialist skills in Urology.
The post holder will be required plan, organise, and book urological investigations, completing electronic records to assist you. You will be expected to proactively manage aspects of patients' pathways, intervening & escalating where necessary.
You will be an integral part of the Urology Diagnostics Unit team, based at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, but you will also need to go over to Calderdale Royal Hospital to cover as required.
The post holder will also provide clerical and administrative support including sending out appointment letters and reminder text messages, booking appointments on EPR, and sending out investigation requests.
You must have considerable experience of working in an NHS environment including the use of clinical systems i.e. EPR/iCRIS/NHS e-referral, but also especially working within the speciality of Urology as you will often need to work independently.
You will be required to have excellent communication skills as this post requires liaison across the many multidisciplinary services and the ability to work independently.
An ability work to a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail is essential.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards.Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.- To assist the multi-disciplinary team to provide exemplary and compassionate care within the Urology setting.
- To actively assist in the delivery of individual programmes of care under direction of qualified nursing staff, but also to work independently.
- To pro-actively support the provision of high standards of nursing care in the Urology department by performing diagnostics test, and to aid clinicians where appropriate.
- Carry out urology investigations and interpret the results, escalating and/or intervening where necessary.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025