Healthcare Assistant London, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class service to join the team in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
The private patients unit is a dedicated inpatient facility consisting of 12 en-suite rooms, with newly refurbished day case pods in the Chelsea Wing and also an Outpatients Unit, Westminster Wing. The Chelsea Wing provides care for patients from a wide range of specialities including gynaecology, general surgery, bariatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and finally specialist medicine and oncology.
You will gain vast clinical knowledge and understand a broad range of acute/complex medical and surgical conditions.
Most of all, you will be able to motivate and engage others to ensure that the services we provide supports the Trust’s values, as well as having a pioneering approach that is not afraid to challenge convention and traditional ways of working.
We are currently recruiting for band 2 healthcare assistants. This is an opportunity for a dynamic and committed individual to join our friendly team of nurses who work within a wider team of multidisciplinary specialists and medical staff.
We positively encourage staff development and have a robust Practice Education team who support Clinical Practice and on-going clinical expertise.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate Trust values and behaviours and essential experience in customer service.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class service to join the team in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
The private patients unit is a dedicated inpatient facility consisting of 12 en-suite rooms, with newly refurbished day case pods in the Chelsea Wing and also an Outpatients Unit, Westminster Wing. The Chelsea Wing provides care for patients from a wide range of specialities including gynaecology, general surgery, bariatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and finally specialist medicine and oncology.
You will gain vast clinical knowledge and understand a broad range of acute/complex medical and surgical conditions.
Most of all, you will be able to motivate and engage others to ensure that the services we provide supports the Trust’s values, as well as having a pioneering approach that is not afraid to challenge convention and traditional ways of working.
We are currently recruiting for band 2 healthcare assistants. This is an opportunity for a dynamic and committed individual to join our friendly team of nurses who work within a wider team of multidisciplinary specialists and medical staff.
We positively encourage staff development and have a robust Practice Education team who support Clinical Practice and on-going clinical expertise.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate Trust values and behaviours and essential experience in customer service.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
- Under indirect supervision assist with the delivery of care for a cohort of patients as identified by the Registered Nurse/ Midwife.
- Assist patients with their care needs as required reporting any change in the patient’s condition to the registered nurse/ midwife.
- Work with the Registered Nurse/ Midwife and other health professionals with the mobilization or transfer of patients.
- Demonstrate awareness of patients in pain and discomfort and report any changes in the patient’s condition to the registered Nurse/ Midwife.
- Demonstrate an awareness of patient’s dietary needs, delivering meals, providing patients with drinks where necessary and providing assistance with eating and drinking if required.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the different needs of individual patients and their carers/ families.
- Demonstrate an awareness of vulnerable patients and their safe guarding needs.
- Under indirect supervision, take and record the patients observations (e.g. temperature, blood pressure) as required and inform the registered nurse/ midwife of any changes in the patient’s condition.
- Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
