Health Care Assistant - Dermatology Out Patients Salford, North West England, England
Job description
Job overview
We are looking for highly motivated and innovative Health Care Assistant with a passion for Dermatology to join our busy team in Dermatology Out Patients.
The Dermatology Centre at Salford Royal offers a full range of dermatology services and is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Your job role will involve working in all the specialist areas
Whilst our main department is based at Salford Royal, we also have a spoke service based at Radcliffe and Altringham. Your main work base will be Salford but you will be expected to work across sites when required.
You will be a motivated team player with a flexible attitude and be able to demonstrate commitment to your own professional development. Ideally you will have an knowledge in Dermatology.
Every year the center cares for approximately 13,000 new outpatients with a further 26,000 follow up appointments. We aim to provide the highest achievable standards of care.
Main duties of the job
Your role will include :
- The ability to organize your own workload
- Ability to recognize clinical signs of infection and when to request a medical review
- Demonstrate an understanding of treatments used within Dermatology that may be applied to patients attending the Daily Dressings clinic
- Ability to apply and monitor skin treatments correctly
- Ability to recognize failure of improvement in a patients' condition and when to seek a medical review
- Ability to support patients with the management of their skin condition
- Ability to book patient appointments via Patient Centre
- Ability to evaluate and document each patient visit via their Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
- Ability to work closely with the medical team regarding planning and evaluating patients' treatment
- To understand the clinical benefit of compression bandaging in leg ulcers to assist healing and to undertake training on how to apply K2 compression bandages.
You will be required to work over 5 days, 32 hours per week.
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, sexual preference, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.
Working for our organisation
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 1 Literacy and Numeracy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with members of the public or experience a desire to work in the Health Service
Desirable criteria
- Interest in dermatology
- Experience of working within health environment
- Experience of working within a team
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge in Dermatology
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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