Senior Healthcare Assistant - Gynaecology Scunthorpe, England
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Assistant to join our established team of Gynaecology staff at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust.
The post is available within the Family Services Division at Scunthorpe General Hospital. It is rotational to cover a 7 day in and outpatient service, but at this time are currently only for day shifts. However, when the service moves to the new IAAU this will include night working.
We are a friendly, small, supportive, well led team that can offer a variety of opportunities to further develop skills and knowledge within gynaecology and early pregnancy.
As we cover both an in and out patient area, caring for elective and emergency admissions provides lots of variety in each working day.
The Health Care Assistant post is to provide support and assistance to the Gynaecology nurses within both a Gynaecology Assessment Unit and an outpatient setting, this includes colposcopy, outpatient hysteroscopy, minor operations, oncology as well as Consultant outpatient clinics.
Our Gynaecology Assessment Unit comprises of six chair spaces and six-beds that will be used for patients requiring an overnight stay, including emergency and elective gynaecology patients. We are currently based on the old CCU and will be part of the new Integrated Acute Assessment Unit (IAAU) .
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic Health Care Assistants who have a keen interest in all aspects of women’s health and care.
We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
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We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Health Care Assistant who have a keen interest in all aspects of women's health and care.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
