Support Worker Job Summary
Do you want to work in a service where we diagnose lung cancer early and save people’s lives?
An exciting support worker opportunity has arisen to work as part of the expanded Staffordshire Targeted Lung Health Check programme. This award-winning programme delivers lung cancer screening to people aged between 55 and 74 years old, who have ever smoked in their lifetimes, from virtual and face to face clinics in the community.
This support worker post will be mainly based in the Bridge Centre, Birches Head, Stoke on Trent with the view to moving to a number of face to face clinics around Staffordshire
Training and induction will be completed at the Bridge Centre but locations around Staffordshire are feasible as the programme expands with some rotational requirement at County Hospital so ability to drive is essential
Travel payments will be made for any travel completed above home to base mileage.
Support Worker Main duties
- screening patients eligible for a Lung Health Check
- Direct, inform and liaise with patients, relatives, members of the TLHC Team and members of the general public.
- Deal directly with queries from patients, other health care professionals and visitors and refer to appropriate TLHC member .
- Update computer information systems ensuring accurate patient information, making/amending appointments and enter appropriate dataset entry and changes into TLHC databases as appropriate.
- Independently input audit data in a timely, efficient manner using agreed databases.
- Independently assess smoking cessation requirements for patients in the TLHC, OPA, and follow up through face to face and telephone consultations as indicated.
- Independently perform Spirometry following recognised training to support diagnosis and on-going referrals as appropriate to TLHC pathway, under guidance of Screening Nurse Specialists.
- Ensure onward referral to other relevant care providers i.e. smoking cessation, dietetics and any other service with appropriate referrals.
- To be responsible for the regular ordering of equipment, consumables and education material and liaise with relevant sources to maintain adequate stock..
- Participate in any developments in computerised administration systems by contributing to the implementation and evaluation process.
- To be responsible for addressing and problem solving queries direct from patients and relatives regarding the targeted lung health check programme pathway.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
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