Senior Healthcare Assistant

at  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Band 3 Senior health care assistant job available on our wonderful Outpatients Department.
The department is looking for a motivated, enthusiastic experienced band 3 Health Care Assistant who has oncology experience.
In this role you will work alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality care for patients. You will work alongside experienced staff to ensure patients have positive journey throughout their time at the Christie.
The role will also involve running busy clinics and working in our busy blood room. If you are enthusiastic with excellent communication skills with an empathic nature alongside excellent IT skills, we would welcome your application.
The role will involve running busy clinics with different malignancies, working alongside the multidisciplinary team. Working in our very busy blood room taking bloods peripherally, central lines and ports.
Assisting nurses with admissions by taking patients observations, ECG`s, urinalysis, blood sugars, providing personal hygiene and recording patients height and weight.
If you are interested please contact Aishling Johnson Senior Sister Aishling.johnson@nhs.net or Betsy Mathew betsyann.mathew1@nhs.net
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.