Clinical Support Worker Radiotherapy

The post-holder is responsible for the provision of high quality and comprehensive day-to-day clinical, administrative, and clerical support within the Radiotherapy department. The individual is expected to carry out delegated clinical, administrative, and clerical support and to ensure appropriate care, information and support is given to all patients and their carer's. The provision of comprehensive support for treatment machines, pre-treatment imaging, and out -patient clinics held within The Christie network through the efficient management of workload to achieve a high standard of patient care. Provide reception cover for the department as well as collation, input, and analysis of relevant patient data while problem solving and communicating effectively. Working under the direction of the medical team to undertake routine and specifically identified tasks once training and competencies have been completed. Although not exhaustive this will include, patient observations, phlebotomy, urinalysis, ECG, taking glucometer readings and changing simple dressings. The post holder must contribute to the efficient running of the service, and work within The Christie NHS Foundation Trust policies and Health & Safety Legislation,

• Ensuring accurate recording/input of treatment and planning data, organising, and scheduling patient appointments, greeting, and escorting patients and assisting patients with appointment queries.
• Problem solving & forward thinking. Uses knowledge of integrated clinical information systems for collating data and adding referrals.
• Data input and radiotherapy completion tasks. Where applicable, provides retrieval of medical documents for clinical information including those from other Trusts
• Liaises with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that adequate
• Triage and management of booking forms, booking, and scheduling of radiotherapy planning and treatment across all sites
• Is responsible for stock control in areas of work. Is responsible for the production and processing of all relevant completion letters following a patient's treatment
• Undertake a range of different delegated duties across the Radiotherapy Department set by the line manager. Record patient information and data and care packages
• Patient transfer. Manual handling tasks as required
• Ensuring accurate recording/input of treatment and planning data, organising, and scheduling patient appointments, greeting, and escorting patients and assisting patients with appointment queries.
• Problem solving & forward thinking. Uses knowledge of integrated clinical information systems for collating data and adding referrals.
• Data input and radiotherapy completion tasks.
  
  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.