Job overview
Clinical Healthcare Support Worker - Breast Care, Band 3 (15 hours a week)
You will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary breast care team delivering a high quality patient centred service for its users and their supporters.
Additional working pattern details: To be able to work flexibly Monday to Friday. 3x 5 hr shifts 08:30-13:30 or 12:30-17:30
Main duties of the job
Your main role will include, running and working within the symptomatic (2 week wait) clinic which runs daily. Your role will include supporting patients as they access services within the breast centre. You will chaperone patients having assessments and treatments in an outpatient setting.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be liaising with patients, carers, admin staff, nursing team and radiology staff, consultants and visitors to the centre. Therefore you should have excellent communication skills and uphold the professional image of the breast centre at all times. You must strive to deliver safe care within a busy, challenging and changing clinical environment.
You will need to be supportive of the clinic team and welcome new staff into the department. You will be highly organised and strive for a well-functioning clinic – ensuring patients are advised of any delays.
You will be expected to act as a professional role model delivering care in a respectful and sensitive manner.
Our team prides itself on providing a caring and efficient service for all patients
Additional Contact Details
Senior Breast Specialist Nursing Team:
David Rider (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) - [email protected]
Rachel Currie (Senior Breast Nurse) - [email protected]
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to escalate concerns and promote patient safety
- Ability to learn and develop new skills and abilities
- Work with enthusiasm and genuine interest within the multidisciplinary team
- Excellent communication skills
Experience
Essential
- Self motivated - able to prioritise and use initiative
- High standard of fundamental care
- Excellent interpersonal and teamworking skills
- Display caring attitude to patients, relatives, colleagues
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE equivalent English and Maths
Desirable
- Previous acute healthcare experience
- Care certificate
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic
- Resilient under pressure
- Reliable, adaptable, dependable
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This advert is for Clinical Healthcare Support Worker - Breast Care, Band 3 with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cheltenham, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 (pa pro rata if part-time). The contract type is Permanent: 15 hours per week. The application deadline is 30 Jul 2026.
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