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Healthcare Assistant | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | 317 Westcumberland Hospital, CA28 8JG |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6331200/317-2024-21-66-DR |
Summary
An exciting opportunity to join our expanding team working in the Henderson Suite West Cumbria. The role will involve supporting the nursing team to deliver systemic anti-cancer treatment and supportive therapies to patients on the chemotherapy unit and assist in outpatients.
We are looking to recruit kind, caring, enthusiastic and motivated healthcare assistants to join our team caring for patients with cancer. You will be required to complete phlebotomy skills and have excellent communication skills and be confident at communicating with patients who are facing a life limiting illness. You will need to be confident in communicating with all members of the multi-disciplinary team at all levels. We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in caring for patients with cancer.
You will need to be hard working and able to demonstrate the Trust Values within everyday work. There will be the opportunity to work across both Carlisle and Whitehaven sites.
You must have worked within a hospital environment previously. Any experience working with cancer patients is desirable and a minimum requirement of NVQ level 3.
• Interview Date 6th June 2024
• 22.5 hours per week (part time hours available)
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
You must be able to work as part of a team, use your own initiative with effective interpersonal and communication skills, contributing fully as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. We will provide a supportive atmosphere, mentorship and clinical supervision on the unit and are committed to professional development with all staff. Team working is an integral part of this unit with all staff enabled and empowered to make a real difference for their patients.
You must be able to demonstrate the Trust Values within everyday work.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• To abide by Trust policies and procedures.
• To assist the Registered Nurses or other registered health care practitioners in providing high quality patient care.
• Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times.
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024
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