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Senior Healthcare Support Worker, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool Clinical Decision Unit/Hotline

Part Time, Permanent post 
Hours: Rotational/Shifts (including nights).

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

Our flagship specialist cancer hospital was opened in central Liverpool in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care.

Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside’s district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region’s Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust).

Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Healthcare Assistant to work alongside registered nurses to provide the highest possible standard of care for patients and families. We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated individuals to undertake this new role and be willing to commit to further learning and development.

We’re here to deliver the best cancer care to the people we serve and we’re looking for applications from those who share that commitment and our values: Putting people first; Achieving excellence; Passionate about what we do; Always improving our care; and Looking to the future.

If you want to be part of a fantastic team and help support the Trust with our vision for providing the best cancer care in the country, then we want to hear from you.

CDU is a 10 bedded unit running Monday to Friday with an ambulatory clinic on Saturday and Sunday. Our 24 hour Hotline Triage telephone advice line is a 24 hour a day, 7 day service. On CDU we care for patients who are experiencing side effects as a result of systemic anti-cancer treatments and radiotherapy treatment that require  a medical assessment and possible admission to CCCL. The Unit accepts patients from both Solid Tumour and Haematological malignancy groups

The unit  accepts patients requiring admission for managament of side effects of systemic anti-cancer treatments and/or radiotherapy and symptom management.
Patients requiring artificial airway management are also nursed on the Unit.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work. 

We are - 

Kind
Empowered
Responsible
Inclusive