Senior Healthcare Support Worker | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS2 8ED |
| Company: | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6266912/387-SPS-3828-HN |
Summary
We are looking for an experienced Healthcare Support Worker with excellent skills in Phlebotomy.
Experience with oncology and haematology would be an advantage, but most important are true compassion and eagerness to learn and develop.
Are you able to work independently with very minimal supervision as well an excellent team member? Are you good at problem solving? Are you innovative and hardworking? Always excited for change?
If you have answered yes to the above questions, we'd love to hear from you.
In return, this role will enable you to have a good work and life balance. No nights no weekends. There are plenty of opportunities to develop your knowledge and clinical skills.
Within the Outpatient department we care for and deliver treatment to patients with solid tumours and haematological disorders. We run a daily dedicated Phlebotomy clinic for our Oncology and Haematology patients. We also have a nurse led clinic to deliver regular line care and blood tests to our patients.
Caring for patients with cancer can be tough. Our supportive team-working culture will empower you to build up professional relationships with your patients and their family as you follow closely their progress. Our patients appreciate dealing with a familiar and reassuring face.
This post will require the post holder to work 8-6 (9.5hrs) for 2 days, preferably Tuesday and Wednesday and some Bank Holidays during the year.
Can you see yourself in this role?
• Practice safe standards or care following UH Bristol and Weston
guidelines and policies and within the scope of the SNA role.
• You will be running your own Nurse-led lists.
• You will be practising safe phlebotomy within clinics and running a Line-Care list for our patients with PICC lines, this will be taught in house with competencies.
• Maintain responsibility for the identification of own continuing
educational and development needs, including audits of own work place.
• Contribute to the provision of a learning environment for staff undergoing training, this can be students and new members of staff.
• Demonstrate an awareness of healthcare work and policies and procedures.
• Ability and willingness to undertake appropriate training.
• You will be working within a team as well as autonomously.
• There is some work with ordering and organising the stock in the Department, together with the housekeeper.
• Be adaptable to change and delegated task.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024
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