Clinical Support Worker

X 2 posts, Band 3 CSW Pain Clinic, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Band 3 CSW in Pre Assessment Unit .

Pain Clinic

We are currently seeking a motivated, polite, and well-organised individual to join our friendly and busy Pain Clinic team at Calderdale Royal Hospital.

As a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker in pain clinic, you will play a key role in supporting patients throughout their pain management journey.

You’ll work closely with our nursing and administrative teams, providing both clinical and clerical support to ensure the smooth running of the clinic.

Pre Assessment Unit

Main duties include -

• Completing investigations for patients undergoing elective surgery including Venepuncture, ECG recording and MRSA swabs
• Liasing with patients post assessment to ensure guidance is followed for surgery such as medication and lifestyle advice
• Completing update telephone assessments with patients and ensuring all required investigations are completed
• Supporting and working collaboratively with the MDT to ensure patients fitness for surgery
• Providing and supporting optimisation of patients undergoing elective surgery
• Retrieval of MRSA results from PAS WEB
• Take observations, bloods and ECG's and MRSA screening
• Telephone assessment of patients awaiting elective surgery and providing patients with their pre-operative instructions.
• Telephone assessments of patients prior to their surgery date to ensure safety and fitness for surgery
• Maintain accurate patient electronic records
• Liaise with multidisciplinary team
• Check and prepare documentation for clinic attenders
• Maintain confidentiality at all times within the Trust’s Policy
  
  

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Karen Lockwood Job title: Clinical Operations Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01484 342652

Pain Clinic

Christina Knight

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