Healthcare Assistant - Haematology Oncology Suite

Working Full or Part time

You will contribute and commit to promoting a positive team based attitude, striving for the highest standards of care and achieving excellence, through continued development and compassion.
You will actively engage and train other members of your team, and when instructed you will support the nursing staff in the effective running of the clinical area, creating an environment which allows you're team to maximise their ability

1. At the direction of the registered Nurse/medical staff participate fully in the delivery of planned nursing care, applying and evaluating specialist clinical skills relevant to grade to ensure the patient receives the care required for the relevant clinical area.

2. Participate in the assessment of health care needs through the completion and interpretation of assessment tools documentation and delegated clinical tests.

3. Assist the RGN in the evaluation of care and completion of patient documents and formatting of relevant clinical data.

4. Involve patients and carers/relatives in the delivery of care providing reassurance, any relevant clinical instructions and support to patients and carers/family.

5. Work collaboratively with others in the Ward/Dept to ensure that patient's needs are met and contribute to effective lines of communication between medical, nursing and administrative staff.

6. Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is PS27.50 (standard) or PS55.50 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of PS16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.