Healthcare Assistant London
Job description
This rewarding opportunity has opened up for a kind, aspirational and collaborative healthcare assistant to join the Imperial Private Healthcare Team. Imperial Private Healthcare are responsible for providing evidence based care to our private patients, across three main sites at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. We are looking for applicants with Healthcare Assistant experience within the NHS and Private Patients, who are now looking to further their career. Training and development opportunities will be provided. You’ll be part of an expert multidisciplinary team providing excellent clinical care to patients with complex surgical procedures, oncological cases and discharge requirements, and you’ll also provide acute medical interventions to patients with a wide range of conditions. This is the perfect department to develop your skills as part of a highly capable team where you’re guaranteed opportunities to learn and develop. Your career goals are essesntial to us and we believe in supporting our staff to develop the career that’s right for you. Assist in the provision of care to patients, supporting and supervised by a registered nurse. To carry out care and treatment tasks, delegated from professionally qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, numeracy and literacy skills as well as a significant level of interpersonal skills. To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and provide cover for any area specified. The post holder will generally work with supervision close by and within well established procedures and practices. The post holder is required to use a degree of initiative and deal with matters independently where they can but should know when to refer to the manager At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location. As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually. We welcome discussions about flexible working and encourage a range of flexible working opportunities wherever we can. The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
