Android WorkManager - Can I pass input data to a Worker that runs periodically?

In my app I start a WebSocketWorker tasks that runs periodically every 15 minutes. As the name implies, it contains a WebSocket for listening to a socket in the background:

// MainApplication.kt
override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
            Timber.plant(DebugTree())
        }

        val work = PeriodicWorkRequestBuilder<WebSocketWorker>(15, TimeUnit.MINUTES).build()
        workManager.enqueueUniquePeriodicWork("UniqueWebSocketWorker", ExistingPeriodicWorkPolicy.KEEP, work)
    }

The WebSocketWorker contains the following logic:

@HiltWorker
class WebSocketWorker  @AssistedInject constructor(
    @Assisted appContext: Context,
    @Assisted workerParams: WorkerParameters
) : CoroutineWorker(appContext, workerParams) {

    inner class MyWebSocketListener : WebSocketListener() {
        override fun onMessage(webSocket: WebSocket, text: String) {
            Timber.d("The message sent is %s", text)
            // do sth. with the message 
        }

        override fun onFailure(webSocket: WebSocket, t: Throwable, response: Response?) {
            t.localizedMessage?.let { Timber.e("onFailure: %s", it) }
            response?.message?.let { Timber.e("onFailure: %s", it) }
        }
    }


    override suspend fun doWork(): Result {
        try{
            // code to be executed
            val request = Request.Builder().url("ws://***.***.**.***:8000/ws/chat/lobby/").build()
            val myWebSocketListener = MyWebSocketListener()
            val client = OkHttpClient()
            client.newWebSocket(request, myWebSocketListener)
            return Result.success()
        }
        catch (throwable:Throwable){
            Timber.e("There is a failure")
            Timber.e("throwable.localizedMessage: %s", throwable.localizedMessage)
            // clean up and log
            return Result.failure()
        }
    }

}

As you can see, in the Worker class I set the WebSocket and everything is fine. Listening to the socket works.

Now, I also want to add the "sending of messages" functionality to my app. How can I reuse the websocket created in WebSocketWorker? Can I pass input data to the WebSocketWorker that runs in the background ?

Let's say I have a EditText for typing the message and a Button to send the message with a setOnClickListener attached like this:

binding.sendButton.setOnClickListener {
            // get message
            val message = binding.chatMessageEditText.text.toString()
            // check if not empty
            if(message.isNotEmpty()) {
                
                // HOW CAN I REUSE THE WEBSOCKET RUNNING PERIODICALLY IN THE BACKGROUND?
                // CAN I PASS THE MESSAGE TO THAT WEBSOCKET ?
                // OR SHOULD I CREATE A DIFFERENT WORKER FOR SENDING MESSAGES (e.g.: a OneTimeRequest<SendMessageWorker> for sending messages ? 
            
            }
        }

From the documentation, I know that you need to build Data objects for passing inputs and so on but there was no example which showcased how to pass input to a worker running periodically in the background.