Band 2 Health Care Assistant Solihull
Job description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic, experienced Band 2 HCAs to become part of a well-established and progressive team.
A challenging and busy environment the Pre-Operative Assessment Service is a specialist team, providing assessment, investigations and information to a wide group of patients prior to surgery. Expected to uphold and ensure that high standards of care and professionalism are maintained and delivered with care and compassion.
Required to support a nurse led clinic performing ECG's , Phlebotomy and discussing Health Promotion with the patients. Your duties will include greeting the patients, taking and recording observations, height, weight, BMI and you will be expected to attend the trusts courses for performing phlebotomy, obtaining transfusion samples and performing ECG's. Following which you will receive mentorship to complete the competencies for these. In house training will also be given.
You will have excellent communication and organisational skills, be motivated and enthusiastic with a holistic approach to care and the ability to work well as a team and on your own initiative. The successful candidate will have opportunities to develop their skills within the department by attending training courses relevant to this specialist role.
This is an exciting role for a band 2 HCA to work with patients to help plan their surgical journey and involves working closely with senior colleagues to ensure that patients are safe to undergo surgery and Anaesthesia.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
To ensure a high standard of patient care is delivered in an effective and efficient manner reflecting the overall philosophy of the service.
Contribute to the development of a learning culture to ensure growth and development of the team and the unit.
You will meet and greet the patients as they arrive, carry out their observations and investigations including ECG's and Phlebotomy.
You will use pics and clinical portal to document and outcome patients
Escalate any concerns to the senior care assistant and nurse in charge
Successful achievement of competencies and training is required to facilitate full undertaking of the role.
Please see attached job description for full duties.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
*Please Note : For a detailed person specification for this vacancy, please see attached person specification*
Experience
Essential
Experience of working / participating as part of a team.
Evidence of ability to work using own initiative and under minimal supervision
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the role and tasks involved
Can articulate the reasons for training/ standards of practice and behaviour and how these may be demonstrated / relate to patient care and safety
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
