Band 3 Community Clinical Support Worker

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We are looking for a confident and compassionate person to join our team supporting patients to receive chemotherapy at home.
You will be a skilled and confident phlebotomist, confident in communicating with patients and their families in their own home. You will ideally have experience of palliative care and caring for patients at the end of their life, although full training and support will be given. You will be able to complete and record patient vital signs and know when to act to raise concerns and seek help. You will be confident to use IT equipment and systems. You will be able to organise your own workload with support, but alsobe comfortable feeding back to the nursing team and raising concerns. A full driving license and access to your own car is essential.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
Attend patients home to collect blood samples: phlebotmoy
Carry out patient vital signs if needed
Communicate with teh wider team/ patients/ relatives/ Primary care and other community teams/ carers
Delivery of samples to laboratories
Carry out risk assessments of lone working and home visits – with support
Documentation of visits and any concerns
work as part of a nurse led team to deliver high standards of care keeping patients at home
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
*Good General Education
*NVQ 2 Health Care (E)
Experience
Essential
*Venepuncture qualification and experience
*Previous/recent healthcare experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Location: Birmingham