Healthcare Support Worker - Outpatients

Our nursing team is small, skilled and friendly. We work within a busy specialist ambulatory care setting, comprising of a 30-room outpatient department at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. We facilitate the ongoing care and management of patients with chronic diseases including Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertension, thoracic oncology, pre-and-post cardiac and lung transplantation and cardiac failure patients. We work as part of a number of multidisciplinary teams in a constantly evolving and innovative ambulatory care setting.

The successful applicant will preferably have previous ambulatory care experience or a willingness to learn how to prioritise care and competing demands in a complex clinical environment., Ideally we would like dynamic individuals who have already demonstrated continued development within the HCSW role and have skills in venepuncture, ECG's, observations and managing patients within permitted guidelines. You will also need to have some IT skills and be able to effectively document into our EPR system.

We are looking for candidates who have previous experience in a Healthcare Support Worker Role, however, we will consider those with no previous experience and place on band 2 until all band 3 training and competencies achieved.

If you are a friendly, compassionate, patient-focused team player who is flexible and looking for a new challenge to advance your clinical skills and knowledge in a specialist cardio-thoracic ambulatory care setting, we would love to hear from you.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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