Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 3 Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) to join our Outpatient Nursing Team at Lewisham Hospital.
The job is full-time (37.5 hours per week), Mondays to Fridays, with no weekends or bank holidays.
The HCSW will work within the outpatient clinics to deliver care to patients coming from home or nursing care homes. The successful candidate will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting a wide range of specialities: rheumatology, cardiology, nephrology, haematology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, neurology teams to name a few.
Please note that you must have a Care Certificate issued by an NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
Moving and handling: transferring patients on wheelchairs to X-ray, scans, transport, giving care to patients on trolley waiting to be seen by doctors in OPD.
Breath test: analysing and providing information about the digestion of certain sugars or carbohydrates to help diagnose common digestive problems, including SIBO, IBS and lactose intolerance.
FibroScan: FibroScan is a non-invasive test that helps assess the health of your liver. Specifically, it uses ultrasound technology to determine the degree of fibrosis or scarring that may be present in your liver from various liver diseases or conditions.
Undertaking urinalysis
Chaperoning: Chaperone patients during examinations/procedures during intimate examinations.
Support patients and assist clinicians during clinical
procedures such as haemorrhoid banding.
Phlebotomy: Perform venepuncture as instructed (following successful completion of training course).