Healthcare Assistant - Surgical London, England
Job description
Healthcare Assistant – Surgical Orthopaedics Ward
Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, SW5 0TU
Salary from £23,135 to £26,606 per annum
Permanent, Full-time, 13 long shifts per month on rotation (long days/nights)
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.
At the Cromwell Hospital you can be the Healthcare Assistant you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority. Building a career in as a Health Care Assistant has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Role Overview
We are recruiting for a Healthcare Assistant to work on our Surgical Ward to be based at the prestigious Cromwell Hospital. This hospital receives both UK and international patients and is committed to providing the highest quality healthcare for patients.
What you’ll do
- As a Healthcare Assistant, you will provide a holistic care to surgical patients pre / post-surgery in a 1:4 nurse to patient ratio ward. You will work closely with the ward nurses and be a patient advocate helping to deliver exceptional care.
- Welcome and receive patients, visitors and colleagues to the unit.
- Accompany patients (including their friends and relatives) between departments.
- Assist patients with eating, drinking, patient hygiene and elimination procedures.
- Assist with observation and collection of specimens.
- Participate in clinical audit
- Have an understanding of cultural needs.
What you’ll bring?
- Experience on a ward or outpatient setting
- NVQ Level 2 (Direct Patient Care) or equivalent - essential
- NVQ Level 3 (Direct Patient Care) - desirable
- Good communicator/interpersonal skills.
- Venepuncture skills/Phlebotomy skills – desirable
Why Bupa?
We'll support you! It’s a rewarding role, you’ll be able to see first-hand how patients benefit from your care. In this department, you’ll have a support network around you, giving you the time to dedicate to each patient.
We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
These benefits have been carefully crafted to really make a difference to our people’s lives, supporting a work-life balance whilst keeping focus on mental and physical wellbeing:
- Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Enhanced pension and life insurance
- Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
- Discounted access to online gym sessions
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate
- Access to our Digital GP platform on you mobile
- Emotional wellbeing support
- Access to family mental health line
- Financial wellbeing channels
- Support for carers
Diversity and Inclusion
Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa.
We’ll make sure you are treated fairly regardless of disability or circumstance. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path.
Welcome to a place that celebrates you.
This isn’t where you've been.
This is where you're going.
This is what we have belief in.
For further information, please contact [email protected] / 07568 606316.
Time Type:
Full time
