Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant Southampton, England

Complete Fertility Limited
Full Time Southampton, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Post Title:

Healthcare Assistant (HCA) Fertility

Location

Complete Fertility Centre , Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton

Relocating to Chandler's Ford in Summer of 2023

Salary

Dependent upon experience

Hours Per Week:

Full time Monday to Friday (variable shift patterns)

Key Working Relationships:

Fertility Patients

Consultants, medical, nursing and lab teams.

Other administration teams

Accountable to:

Head of Nursing & Governance

Main Purpose and duties:

  • Care for fertility patients during all stages of their pathway within Complete Fertility Centre Southampton
  • Undertake: phlebotomy, recovery and help with theatre procedures
  • Clinical skills specific to fertility

Specific to fertility theatre and recovery

  • Making hot drinks and snacks for patients in recovery
  • Assisting consultant in Oocyte procedure in theatre
  • Preparation of the recovery room
  • Preparation of theatre including trolleys using ANTT technique
  • Administrative help such as scanning paper documents onto software.
  • Assisting in embryo transfer procedure during embryo transfer.
  • Collecting patients from waiting room for various procedures.
  • Offering reassurance and empathy to fertility patients.
  • Assist doctors with hycosy and hysteroscopy procedures.
  • Answering telephone enquiries.
  • Prepare injection training packs.
  • Prepare paper work for following day’s procedures.
  • Check consents and blood tests are complete and in date.
  • Able to read eQuest results and to request further tests.
  • Assist with stock taking and ordering
  • Communicate compassionately with patients who may be experiencing difficult outcomes.
  • Assist in the nursing office with nurse phone and administrative work
  • Develop own knowledge and skills relevant to the HCA role.
  • Ensure the RI witnessing process for consumables is completed correctly
  • Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.
  • Contribute to the improvement of services.
  • Assist with Audits (training provided) allocated to the nursing team
  • Support equality and value diversity, identifying when own or others’ behaviour undermines equality and diversity.
  • Health and well-being: plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and well-being, preventing adverse effects to health and well-being contribute to assessing and undertaking health and well-being needs,
  • Input, store and provide data and information.
  • Identify risks and escalate them appropriately
  • Adhere to company infection control procedures

Health and Safety:

Staff are reminded of their responsibility to take care of their own personal safety and others whilst at work. In addition, no person shall interfere with, or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety and welfare.

Infection Prevention and Decontamination of Equipment:

Safeguarding:

All staff are reminded of their responsibility to adhere to Complete Fertility Ltd’s Infection Prevention Policies, including policies for the cleaning and decontamination of equipment, in order to protect their own health and that of other employees, visitors and patients.

Recruitment is carried out in line with safeguarding practices.

All staff within complete fertility have a responsibility for safeguarding adults and children in line with the policy in Qpulse

Confidentiality

All employees of Complete Fertility Ltd are reminded of the need to treat all information, particularly clinical and management information, as confidential.

Any employee who wilfully disregards Complete Fertility Ltd’s policies may be liable to serious disciplinary action including dismissal.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Experience:

  • Healthcare: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Health Care Assistant
Complete Fertility Limited

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