Health Care Support Worker - Ingham Chemotherapy Suite - Band 2 Lincoln, England
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join the chemotherapy suite. The role of the HCSW is extremely important to provide safe and excellent care to our patients.
The role will involve extra clinical skills such as cannulation, venepuncture and ECG's.
An Opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Support Worker in the Chemotherapy/ Haematology suite caring for both Haematology and Oncology patients.
About the Department…
The Chemotherapy/Haematology suites at Pilgrim Hospital are friendly and busy departments providing chemotherapy and other treatments to both Oncology and Haematology patients. In addition, the department undertakes PICC line flushes, blood transfusions and numerous other supportive day case activities.
About the Role / What we’re looking for..
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of appropriate care, alongside the staff nurses. They will be responsible for undertaking patient observations, addressing their hygiene needs and catering for their nutritional requirements. It will involve caring for acutely ill patients at times. The position also offers the opportunity to undertake some extended roles and improve their clinical skills. We would expect the applicants to be skilled in blood competencies/collection. You must possess good written and verbal communication skills. There will be a need to work flexibly to meet the needs of the chemotherapy/haematology service.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
- Greeting patients on arrival to the suite.
- Clinical observations
- Providing patients with drinks and sandwiches
- Collections from pharmacy and other departments
