Bank Healthcare Assistant - Pre-assessment

Job Description

Healthcare Assistant | Pre-assessment | Spire Clare Park Hospital | Farnham | Ad hoc shifts

Spire Clare Park Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join the bank team.

Spire Clare Park is an elective hospital situated in Farnham that has recently been rated as good by the CQC. We offer a range of surgical specialties, which includes: Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Cosmetics, Urology, Dermatology and ENT.

Our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business bringing together the best people who are dedicated to developing excellent clinical environments and delivering the highest quality patient care.

Duties And Responsibilities

To assist the qualified nursing staff, under their supervision, in providing a high quality, comprehensive nursing service to all patients and users, ensuring a high standard of a patient care is maintained in a clean and safe environment.

• Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and well being.
• Assist in the delivery of care to meet individuals’ health and wellbeing needs
• Establish and maintain communication with people on routine care matters
• Contribute to own personal development.
• Assist in maintaining own and others’ health and safety and security.
• Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
• Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and rights
• Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
• To maintain standards of infection control within the hospital and own department and to assist patients to maintain their own infection control needs
• To ensure that Clinical Governance and risk management are embedded within daily practice.
• Provide and receive patient information, ensuring that all patient information is provided, received and recorded in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Spire Policies.
• To meet Spire values, whilst delivering care to patients and relatives
• To adhere to the relevant Codes of Conduct, Guidelines and Spire Policies, Procedures, Protocols and Standards at all times
  
  

Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post.

Who We're Looking For

• Working as part of a team
• Flexible to work and working patterns
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of working as healthcare assistant within a hospital environment
• Able to take bloods - essential
• ECG - essential
• Basic Clinical Observation skills
• Basic Nursing Care
• Awareness of health, safety and hygiene
• NVQ Level 3 in Healthcare or equivalent - desirable
  
  

Bank Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Smartspending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
• Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You’
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
  
  

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together
  
  

We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.