Radiotherapy Support Worker

6 months ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust Full time

THIS VACANCY IS FOR CCC-LIVERPOOL

To assist all members of the MDT in all sections of the department to provide a comprehensive, efficient and effective service.

To perform clinical and clerical duties; provide hands on care, assistance and emotional support to patients and their carers.

To prepare and run assigned weekly treatment review clinics and phlebotomy.

The role of a Radiotherapy Support Worker is to primarily support the patients and the radiographers within the radiotherapy department. It is a diverse role, with clinical and clerical aspects to the role. A few examples of what you will be expected to do include; chaperoning patients, participating in the phlebotomy service taking bloods, recording patients observations using the National Early Warnings Scoring system and assisting in our brachytherapy and Papillon suite. All training is provided in house. If you are a caring, empathetic and enthusiastic team worker please apply.

Interviews will take place in the Radiotherapy Department at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool or via Microsoft Teams. If you wish to visit the Radiotherapy department prior to interview we will endeavor to try and accommodate this.

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 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 and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site.

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.

1.Communication

Communicate with wide variety of staff including radiographers in both treatment and pre-treatment, medical staff, ward staff, medical records staff and CReST team.

Communication with patients and carers which may include help, advice and support concerning the radiotherapy process and information received at a review clinic.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Ensure that if a patient or carer relays information that requires action by a health professional that this information is relayed to the correct individual or team in order for appropriate action to be taken.

Planning and Organisational Skills

Efficiently deal with clerical and clinical duties

Plan own work to ensure tasks are prioritised effectively

Physical Skills

Standard keyboard skills are needed to operate the various computer systems used with the department.

Responsibility for Patient and Client Care

Act as a chaperone to patients during examinations and other clinical procedure, provide them with relevant information and support as needed.

Assist patients with dressing / undressing and toileting.

Under the supervision of a clinician provide patients with prescribed medication and ensure that the patient understands all instructions given.

Provide patient with non-clinical information and support.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development

Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures

Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources

Perform daily checks on all emergency / resuscitation equipment ensuring all items are fit for use or replaced.

Responsible for the maintenance of stock levels including items from pharmacy.

Responsible for the equipment used for the examination of patients in the clinic areas.

Responsible for safe and effective use of equipment within the department

Reports any faults with equipment to the appropriate team

Responsibility for Human Resources

Demonstrates own work to trainee support workers and student radiographers assigned to work area.

Responsibility for Information Resources

Retrieve any documentation needed for the review clinic.

Use Meditech/ARIA to retrieve / input relevant data.

Responsibility for Research and Development

None

Freedom to Act

Responsible for their own actions.

Limited freedom to act

Physical Effort

Manual handling of patient, equipment and case notes.

Unpacking and storing stock items.

Mental Effort

Concentration w

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