Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 214-MED-7465841
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kings Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton In Ashfield
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Upper GI Straight to Test Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.
Job overview
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are looking for a proactive and organised Support Worker to join our Upper GI Team at King’s Mill Hospital, supporting the delivery of high-quality care for patients with suspected Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a first point of contact for patients, carers, and healthcare professionals—handling face-to-face, telephone, and email enquiries.
- To support the UGI CNS to identify the needs of upper GI cancer patients, via contributing to the Holistic Needs Assessment process where appropriate.
- To provide general information and support regarding patient pathway and diagnostic
tests, to enable patients to navigate the health and social care system, and make optimal choices - Maintain and update spreadsheets and databases to track patient activity and support service audits.
- Assist with the administrative running of nurse-led tele-clinics and health and well-being clinics.
- Order and manage educational resources for patients.
- Support the CNS team in data collection and audit activities to improve service delivery.
Apply now to join our team!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Understand person-centred care
- Understand the health and social care environment
- Effective team player able to work with people at all levels within the trust
- Self motivated but also able to motivate others
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
- Knowledge of multidisciplinary team meetings
Desirable criteria
- Offers appropriate help and advice with sensitivity
- Seeks ways to improve systems and efficiency
- An understanding of clinical audit and data collection methodology
- Knowledge of cancer waiting times policies and procedures
- Knowledge of Cancer Pathways, cancer care, national initiatives
- Personalised information agenda including information prescriptions
- Knowledge of relevant cancer treatments, interventions and terminology
Skills and Effort required
Essential criteria
- Possess effective listening skills
- Negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to deal tactfully with patients and relatives
- Excellent communicator who can communicate with a wide range of different professional groups (both clinical and non-clinical)
- High degree of concentration
- Effective judgment skills for decision making
- Ability to prioritise tasks, work to deadlines and manage own time effectively
- Ability to deal with difficult emotional situations
- Ability to show empathy and understand the difficulties faced by people affected by cancer
- Work with those affected by cancer on a regular basis
- Effective organisational skills
- Practical problem solving skills
- Good observation and assessment skills
- IT skills including data entry
- Ability to work as part of a team as we use own initiative
- Effective organisational skills
- Practical problem solving skills
- Ability to show empathy and understand the difficulties faced by people affected by cancer
- Ability to prioritise own workload
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE English Language and Mathematics (Grade A -C) or equivalent
- NVQ3 or equivalent through short courses
- European Computer Driving Licence or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level 4 or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant health or social care experience
- Experience of multi professional working
- Experience of coaching/teaching patients carers
- Experience of using Microsoft Office and web-based systems Hospital computer systems e.g PAS, case note tracking, ORION
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
- IT Skills
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mel Bull
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
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