Senior Healthcare Support Worker - CDC/Outpatients - ref. t443603
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Job overview
This new post offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), due to open in 2025 in Hereford.
The Community Diagnostic Centre will incorporate Imaging (Plain X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI), a range of cardiorespiratory investigations including echocardiography, ECG and rhythm monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, FeNO, lung function tests, simple field tests, sleep investigations, oximetry, blood gas analysis and pathology services in a "one stop" location to obtain diagnostic information in cancer, cardiac, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and other conditions.
As a Healthcare Support Worker at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) you will also be required to work across CDC and the Clinical Support Outpatient Departments ,Oxford Suite and Fred Bulmer.
This exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of a dedicated team providing outpatient care at the new CDC and Outpatient Department at the County Hospital. As a Healthcare Support Worker in these areas you will assist clinical teams to provide care and support patients through their cancer journeys.
You will be trained in supporting in clinics, acting as a chaperone, performing phlebotomy as an essential skill and any other skills that are required of you.
Community Diagnostic Centre
Main duties of the job
To support the activities of the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) and Outpatients departments in Oxford Suite and Fred Bulmer.
To work under the direct/indirect supervision of and in support of the Consultant, registered nurse and or the registered Allied Health Professional carrying out delegated nursing and non-nursing duties to promote patient centred care.
To ensure that all duties required to assist the clinician performing the clinic are completed in a timely manner to ensure the best patients experience possible. To be mindful at all times of the impact on patients of own actions.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria- Maths and English grade 3-9 or A,B,C,D
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, verbally and in writing
- NVQ Level II / III and / or Diploma in Health & Social Care 2 / 3
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria- Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibility within a clinical setting
- Willingness to work towards NVQ II/III in care or equivalent can we discuss.
- Demonstrate skills to other newly appointed HCA
- Competent venepuncture and ECG skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Previous experience in a care environment
- Advanced communication ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to a wide range of people