Healthcare Support Worker
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Support Worker to join our CPAP Practitioner Team. This position would ideally suit an individual with a caring positive attitude who strives to make the patient feel valued, while upholding our Trust values of Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration.
With our patient cohort currently in the region of 17000, we are looking for an individual who embraces innovation. We will support you in achieving the care certificate and will also provide training and support within our speciality.
Main duties of the job
Our Practitioner Team are predominately based in the outpatient department at Royal Papworth Hospital and travel independently across several locations in the East Anglia region to support outreach clinics.
Health education and promotion plays a significant part in our role and as part of your role you will be asked to help with the Community Sleep Studies. This will involve preparing and giving out the monitors to the patients and will also include downloading and checking that the studies have been delivered to our data base.
Good communication skills are essential as you will be required to make calls to patients and carers regarding devices.
Sending out devices and masks from clinics, along with maintaining stock levels in our department and assisting when required in clinics.
About us
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 and collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles and 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 and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Details
Date posted
18 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
C9175-2324-2-TH3869
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Jacqueline Archer
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