Clinical Support Worker | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 November 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7457949/214-MED-7457949 |
Summary
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality patient care in a dynamic and supportive environment? We are looking for a dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our team in the Welcome Treatment Centre at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
In this role, you will assist in the care of patients undergoing a range of treatments including Haematology and Oncology chemotherapy, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, and supportive therapies such as blood product transfusions. Working under the supervision of our experienced Registered Chemotherapy Nurses, you will play a vital part in ensuring patients receive safe, compassionate, and efficient care throughout their time in the unit.
This is a hands-on role that will involve a variety of clinical and support tasks including:
• Taking and recording patient observations
• Weighing patients
• Performing venepuncture and cannulation
• Assisting with personal care needs
• Supporting the safe flow of patients through the unit
• Performing ECGs (training provided)
• Stocking patient trollies and managing sharps disposal
• Collecting blood products (training provided)
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team in a busy day case setting, where no two days are the same. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills, contribute to patient wellbeing, and be part of a team that values professionalism, empathy, and teamwork.
Please see generic job description and person specification attached.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.
Please see generic job description and person specification attached.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025
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