Healthcare Assistant Emergency Department Salisbury, England
Job description
Bored of the same routine? Looking for a career opportunity where you can make a real difference? This is a really exciting time to join the ED team as a Healthcare Assistant working in the fast moving & challenging environment of Emergency Nursing. Your role will include supporting the nursing team to, provide a high standard of care.
We are a friendly & supportive team who will help you develop to your full potential.
Whilst we serve a mostly rural population we are also a designated Trauma Unit and have a track record in handling major incidents successfully which offers a varied and challenging patient workload and the number of attendances is growing. We work closely with the ambulance service and specialist teams both within the hospital and in the community to ensure that we provide the right care, at the right time.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept those who need sponsorship to work in this role due to government guideline's
Assisting the registered nurses in the assessment and care required for patients attending to the Emergency Department; completing basic interventions, such as ECG's, observations, venepuncture and cannulation, and working towards further extended roles such as application of plaster of paris casts and simple dressings.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
We will also support the opportunity to develop further with additional training to become a Nursing Associate.
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept those who need sponsorship to work in this role due to government guideline's
