Clinical Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This permanent Clinical Support Worker role at The Christie Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) Centre involves a varied range of clinical and clerical duties. You will support patients throughout their treatment course, working alongside radiographers and performing administrative tasks. The role requires excellent communication skills, a strong team ethic, and flexibility to adapt to evolving workloads. Training will be provided for this specialised role.
Essential criteria
- Vocational healthcare qualification at level 3 or willingness to work towards
- Educated to GCSE level in Maths and English or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- AMSPAR Diploma (Association of Medical Secretaries and Practice Administrators and Receptionists Diploma)
- Completion of Care Certificate
- Experience of working in a customer service or patient related environment
- Experience of undertaking administrative duties
- Experience of working in a clinical environment within the NHS
- Experience of using multiple healthcare IT systems
- Effective communication and Customer/patient care skills
- Able to work using own initiative and follow instructions from a registered professional and line management
- Ability to demonstrate and share care skills to more junior health care support workers
- Good IT skills with the ability to use/learn multiple Oncology patient management systems
- Excellent organisation skills with attention to detail
- Wound dressing skills
- Understanding of the healthcare support worker role in an Outpatient setting
- IT Literate
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Evidence of recent training
- Previous experience of oncology patient management systems
- Values
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
- Other
- Committed to delivering high standards of patient/customer care
- Empathetic and caring
- Professional outlook and positive attitude
- Calm and reassuring
- Honest and trustworthy
- Dedicated and enthusiastic
- Team player
- Physical ability to manoeuvre patients
- Ability to keep up to date with own competencies and keen to learn new clinical and administrative skills
- Ability to concentrate during unpredictable and busy work patterns
- Comfortable being exposed to distressing and/or emotional circumstances and situations
- Available to work flexibly/ weekends / short notice
- Vocational healthcare qualification at level 3 or willingness to work towards
- Educated to GCSE level in Maths and English or equivalent qualification
- AMSPAR Diploma (Association of Medical Secretaries and Practice Administrators and Receptionists Diploma)
- Completion of Care Certificate
- Experience of working in a customer service or patient related environment
- Experience of undertaking administrative duties
- Experience of working in a clinical environment within the NHS
- Experience of using multiple healthcare IT systems
- Effective communication and Customer/patient care skills
- Able to work using own initiative and follow instructions from a registered professional and line management
- Ability to demonstrate and share care skills to more junior health care support workers
- Good IT skills with the ability to use/learn multiple Oncology patient management systems
- Excellent organisation skills with attention to detail
- Wound dressing skills
- Understanding of the healthcare support worker role in an Outpatient setting
- IT Literate
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Evidence of recent training
- Previous experience of oncology patient management systems
- Values
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
- Other
- Committed to delivering high standards of patient/customer care
- Empathetic and caring
- Professional outlook and positive attitude
- Calm and reassuring
- Honest and trustworthy
- Dedicated and enthusiastic
- Team player
- Physical ability to manoeuvre patients
- Ability to keep up to date with own competencies and keen to learn new clinical and administrative skills
- Ability to concentrate during unpredictable and busy work patterns
- Comfortable being exposed to distressing and/or emotional circumstances and situations
- Available to work flexibly/ weekends / short notice
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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The Christie NHS FT
Clinical Support Worker
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent position in the Clinical Support Team at the Christie Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) Centre in Withington Manchester.
The role is that of Clinical Support Worker (CSW) and involves a varied range of roles and daily duties incorporating both clerical and clinical skills. The role of the CSW role is supporting the patient and the service throughout their course of the patient's treatment as they attend for PBT. Working with patients on a daily basis CSW will be responsible for a range of supportive duties working alongside the radiographers in treatment and imaging, as well as clerical and administrative work. It is preferable for candidates to have some experience of working in a healthcare setting but not essential as training will be provided for this highly specialised role
Working shifts to cover the needs of the service. Example shifts include 7am-3pm and 11am-7pm. These may vary depending on work area.
Permanent 22.5hours over 3 days. Working Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Main duties of the job
The CSW assists the clinical teams in supporting patients whilst they are receiving treatment.
This includes assisting radiographers in the production, management and maintenance of radiotherapy immobilisation devices, lia
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