Healthcare Assistant Liverpool, England
Job description
We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Clinical Haematology Healthcare Assistant (HCA). In this role, you will provide vital support across both our Ambulatory Day Case Unit and within the Haematology Outpatient Clinics, working alongside a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. If you are passionate about patient care, possess excellent communication skills, and have a strong interest in clinical haematology, we encourage you to apply.
You will be expected to work within the remit of the Trust band 3 role, working directly under the supervision of the senior nursing team.
Assisting the collection and processing of blood samples for laboratory testing.
Collaborate with the nursing team and other health care professionals to ensure seamless patient care.
To stock up clinical areas and order as necessary.
To undertake audits and patient satisfaction surveys on a daily/weekly/monthly basis and record.
Removal of cannulas.
Prepare patients for treatments, investigations or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience.
General and clinical observations of patients, reporting anything untoward to Registered Nursing Staff, to include:
- Recording of blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration rate
- Recording of peak flow
Keep mandatory training up to date and any other training necessary for band 3 post.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the Northwest region and beyond. To hear more about our achievements, click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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You will be expected to work within the remit of the Trust band 3 role, working directly under the supervision of the senior nursing team.
Assisting the collection and processing of blood samples for laboratory testing.
Collaborate with the nursing team and other health care professionals to ensure seamless patient care.
To stock up clinical areas and order as necessary.
To undertake audits and patient satisfaction surveys on a daily/weekly/monthly basis and record.
Removal of cannulas.
Prepare patients for treatments, investigations or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience.
General and clinical observations of patients, reporting anything untoward to Registered Nursing Staff, to include:
- Recording of blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration rate
- Recording of peak flow
Keep mandatory training up to date and any other training necessary for band 3 post.
