# Healthcare Support Worker

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust.

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- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-support-worker/118311ea-cb38-4ac0-b7e4-fd937dfa5876
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-support-worker/118311ea-cb38-4ac0-b7e4-fd937dfa5876.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Liverpool
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £24,169 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (or until postholder returns, whichever is earlier)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2025-05-06T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2025-04-22T10:10:10.242Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/The_Clatterbridge_Cancer_Centre_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v7144392
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7144392?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Health Care Assistant -  Full Time Role 37.5 hours per week, 12 months fixed term contract.   An exciting opportunity has arisen for Healthcare Assistants 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.  The successful candidate will have excellent communication and clerical skills and have had previous experience working within a care environment.  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.

### Main duties of the job

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust provides highly-specialist cancer care for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

In June 2020, we opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool, our spectacular new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter, providing state-of-the-art facilities as part of a £162m investment. Alongside our flagship hospital in Liverpool, we also have two other main cancer centres:

- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Wirral, providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care on the Clatterbridge Health Campus in Bebington, Wirral
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Aintree, our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree University Hospital site

Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we 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.

Working with leading experts from the University of Liverpool, we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

## Job Details

Health Care Assistant -  Full Time Role 37.5 hours per week, 12 months fixed term contract. An exciting opportunity has arisen for Healthcare Assistants 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.The successful candidate will have excellent communication and clerical skills and have had previous experience working within a care environment.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.

## Job Description

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust provides highly-specialist cancer care for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

In June 2020, we opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool, our spectacular new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter, providing state-of-the-art facilities as part of a £162m investment. Alongside our flagship hospital in Liverpool, we also have two other main cancer centres:

Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we 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.

Working with leading experts from the University of Liverpool, we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments.

## Responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of caring for patients

**Desirable**

- Experience working in a healthcare setting

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Good general education/ Literacy & Numeracy or  willing to work towards obtaining
- Willing to undertake the National Care Certificate

**Desirable**

- Working towards or prepared to work towards obtaining an  apprenticeship in clinical healthcare.
- National Care Certificate

### Knowledge and Expertise

**Essential**

- Awareness and understanding of importance  of confidentiality
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Demonstrate interest in healthcare services
- Caring / supportive attitude
- Knowledge of Infection Control processes
- Knowledge of Safeguarding processes

## Documents

- [ccc edi (pdf, 923.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2230)
- [ccc green plan (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2170)
- [ccc recruitment pack (pdf, 4.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2171)
- [oh risk assessment form (pdf, 288.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9371835)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 627.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9371834)

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