Healthcare Assistant Middlesbrough, England
Job description
37.5 Hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Assistant to join the Cardiothoracic Operating Theatre team at The James Cook University Hospital. We are seeking a motivated individual who has been trained to NVQ level 3 or willing to work towards to become part of a highly motivated and valued professional team.
Cardiothoracic Theatres operate Monday to Friday only. An On Call commitment is required to provide a 24 hour service. This commitment attracts an extra payment.
Role of the healthcare assistant in operating room is to prepare and maintain operating theatres and equipment, assist surgical and anaesthetic teams during operations, and provide support to patients.
If you are interested in this post and would like any further information or would like to arrange a visit to the area please contact: Maureen Theakston, Cardiothoracic Theatre Manager on 01642 854624 or Andrea Tooley, Deputy Cardiothoracic Theatre Manager on 01642 854624.
This vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
South Tees Hospitals is the largest hospital trust in the Tees Valley with two acute hospitals and services in a number of community hospitals.
The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough is a designated major trauma centre and provides all its specialties from one site which is unique for a hospital of its size. It provides a wide range of district general hospital services and specialist services such as neurosciences, renal medicine, spinal injuries, major trauma, cardiothoracics, vascular surgery and cancer services. It has 1,024 beds, a 24-hour acute admissions unit and an emergency department which houses the major trauma centre for Durham, East Cleveland, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire and has its own helipad. In 2012 the Middlesbrough hospital completed a £35 million redevelopment of its cancer services and is now proud to provide some of the best facilities in Europe. The James Cook University Hospital has a modern, central operating suite containing 20 well-equipped theatres and a 16-bedded intensive care unit. There is also an Institute of Learning, Research and Innovation on site, embracing postgraduate medical education, undergraduate teaching centre, nurse training school, the school of radiography and library facilities.
The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton is an essential part of our organisation and an important point of delivery for the community. It is one of the smallest district general hospitals in the country and has 189 inpatient beds.
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