The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Healthcare Assistants
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This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Outpatients Department, supporting our busy outpatient areas and delivering our ‘Bloods Closer to Home’ service across our satellite sites.
We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Senior Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly community team working across Greater Manchester. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a rewarding role where you will support patients in community settings, helping to deliver safe, effective, and person-centred care.
In this role, you’ll be part of multiple MDTs, developing strong communication skills and enhancing your phlebotomy practice through hands on experience in our blood rooms. You’ll play a key part in delivering a safe, effective and compassionate service for our patients — often being the reassuring face they meet at an important moment in their care.
As a key member of our service, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality clinical care, supporting registered professionals, and promoting patient independence and wellbeing.
This position involves lone working and travelling across the Greater Manchester area — therefore, you must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to your own vehicle. Mileage expenses can be claimed in line with our policy.
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What We Offer
- Full induction and ongoing support from experienced clinicians.
- Comprehensive phlebotomy training and opportunities for further development.
- Mileage reimbursement for travel across the community.
- Supportive and inclusive working environment.
- Opportunities to make a real difference in patients’ lives every day.
- You will automatically be enrolled into our Christie care certificate module allowing you to gain further knowledge within oncology ensuring you are developed to the highest potential.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide holistic, person-centred care to patients in the community and onsite.
- Perform clinical tasks within your competence, including phlebotomy (full training will be provided).
- Follow Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT) and local infection prevention policies to maintain patient safety.
- Work closely with registered nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Accurately record and report observations, interventions, and outcomes.
- You will have the opportunity to work onsite (running outpatient clinics, working in our phlebotomy room as well as working in our bloods closer to home sites)
- Skills & knowledge you will obtain if successful at interview are (not limited to): NEWS2, venepuncture, CVADS, TVADS, Height & weights, AKI & sepsis, urinalysis, ECG’s, moving and handling, BLS & blood sugar monitoring.
- Manage your workload effectively while working independently in the community.
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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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sophie Shepherd
- Job title: Sister
- Email address: sophie.shepherd7@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0161 956 1630
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