Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant Basildon, East of England, England

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Basildon, East of England, England 22816 - 24336 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

We are a new service that helps provide early detection of lung cancer. You will be agile working so you have the flexibility of working from home and coming into the office.

You main role will be completing telephone assessments to those patients that maybe eligible for this free Lung health check.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a programme that is making a difference to patients that may have no symptoms but could have cancer.

  • Completing telephone assessments
  • registering/discharging patients onto system one
  • Work on the mobile CT scanner, which includes doing patients height/weight
  • liaising with GPs via the use of system one
  • answering the telephone to patients who maybe eligible for the programme
COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,192 and a maximum payment of £2,011 per annum pro rata).

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  • Working through your allocated ledger for that day
  • Completing telephone risk assessments to those patients that maybe eligible for the programme
  • offering advice to patients who may want some advice on stop smoking, and completing onward referrals
  • communicating with patients GPs
  • using System one and waiting list

Health Care Assistant
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

www.nelft.nhs.uk/work-for-us
Rainham, United Kingdom
John Brouder
$100 to $500 million (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Hospital
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
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