Healthcare Support Worker | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Come and join our team and help us make a difference”

Due to an ever-expanding service, including plans to develop haemato-oncology services, exciting opportunities exist within the Kent Oncology Centre based at Maidstone hospital site.

This is an opportunity for you to join our highly motivated, patient focused, forward thinking team, working within a supportive environment. If you are motivated and enthusiastic, we may have the post you have been looking for.

We have a post available for a Band 2 Clinical Support Worker.

Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.

Lord North is an 18 bedded inpatient ward, incorporating Haematology including the administration of chemotherapy, delivering a high standard of care. For this post you need to have excellent communication skills, a great attitude, a caring nature and work well under pressure

Successful applicants should be motivated, flexible and committed to being part of a team dedicated to providing the highest possible standards of care to our patients.

Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

The programme includes 2 supernumerary shifts in the clinical area (an early and a late shift), all of the other days are classroom-based and run from 9am to 5pm

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check atEnhanced Level.(Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).

We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.

You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Interview Date: To be confirmed.

This advert closes on Monday 7 Oct 2024