Colorectal Cancer Support Worker Redhill, South West England, England
Job description
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated person to join our Colorectal Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Team. This friendly , supportive team is dedicated to the provision of the best quality patient care.
The Support Worker will work closely with the other Cancer Support workers and Cancer Services to assist the Cancer Nurse Specialists in providing patient related support and coordinating administrative support to help with the smooth running of the service.
This involves supporting patients, both face to face, via telephone and in group sessions, who are referred by the clinical teams as well as those patients/relatives seeking information, advice and support at the Macmillan Centre.
This will include supporting the team: in the clinic setting; in carrying out telephone support to patients; undertaking holistic needs assessments and care planning and organising and providing personalised care and support activities for people living with and beyond cancer, the role will also involve carrying out office based duties.
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
- We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
- Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
- Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey
