Lymphoedema Senior Health Care Support Worker

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LYMPHOEDEMA SENIOR HEALTH CARE SUPPORT WORKER

Tissue Viability SerVIce

Band 3: PART TIME (22.5 HOURS)

An exciting opportunity has become available for a senior health care support worker post based in Barnsley General Community Services within South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust.

The purpose of this role is to support our specialist clinical team to provide a newly commissioned service to support patients primarily in a clinic setting but also in the patient's own home where clinically appropriate / necessary. This will be hosted within our award winning Community Tissue Viability Service. The initial rollout of the service will accept adults with a confirmed diagnosis of the following:

Lymphoedema secondary to cancer and cancer treatments
Palliative patients with a life limiting progressive disease
Primary Lymphoedema (confirmed congenital/hereditary diagnosis).

The post holder will assist in the undertaking and observation of a range of treatments delivered by our nurse/therapy specialists, including intensive decongestive treatment and manual lymphatic drainage.

We are looking for individuals who are confident, highly motivated and flexible with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You should be an experienced practitioner, with the ability to provide clinical care and support to the highest standard.

This role requires the post holder to undertake physically demanding work on a daily basis and involves frequent kneeling and crouching along with lifting and securing of limbs to assist in the application of lymphoedema garments; therefore a level of physical fitness is required in order to sustain this type of clinical intervention.

The ability to work flexibly and to travel around the Barnsley area on a daily basis is also essential.

If you would like more information about this post please contact Laura Hallas-Hoyes Lead Nurse Tissue Viability on or .

The government have recently announced that frontline healthcare workers in England must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no later than 1 April 2022 to protect patients. This role is frontline, and therefore you will be required to provide evidence that you are fully vaccinated (unless you are medically exempt; under 18 years of age; or a participant in a clinical trial investigating COVID-19 vaccination) in order to be appointed to this role.
As a flexible employer encouraging a healthy work/life balance, we will consider Part-Time and flexible working opportunities for all our positions.

Our application process will test your attitudes and behaviours, as well as your knowledge and skills. So that we know we'd be a good match for each other. If you're successful you'll then have a 12 months values based induction.

You'll also have access to a wide range of wellbeing support because our wellbeing at work matters to #allofus. There's a great range of support for us all including a workplace physio, staff retreats, health checks, counselling, mindfulness and a variety of sports groups. You can take part in our award-winning Creative Minds activities as well as access courses at our innovative recovery colleges.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.

We know there's a wealth of talent among people who have a disability as well as those who have experience of mental or physical health problems. So, if you need any support with your application just give us a call on .

A couple of things to note - if you're shortlisted for interview we'll contact you via your NHS jobs account, so please check this regularly. Please provide email addresses wherever possible for your references. Bear in mind that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as you can.

We hope you would like to join our award winning team. Good luck with your application.

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