Healthcare Assistant Pre-Assessment

Healthcare Assistant

Shrewsbury Hospital Nursing Permanent contract Full time Includes weekend work
25038 per annum
37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the UKs largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes were committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you.

As a HCA you will work with the Pre-Assessment Team alongside other healthcare assistants nurses physiotherapists bookings co-ordinators and outpatients staff to ensure the patients journey is streamline and the care they receive is of a high standard. As the Pre-Assessment Department we are the very beginning of the patients journey with Nuffield Health and we strive to provide excellent safe and efficient care from the very start. Our specialities include Orthopaedics Gynaecology Breast Surgery General Surgery Plastics Surgery ENT Cardiology GP Services Psychiatry and Physiotherapy.

Responsibilities of a Healthcare Assistant Pre-assessment

• Welcome and see patients within a busy clinic setting

• Undertake baseline observations including ECG diabetes checks and MRSA Screening urinalysis

• Safely carry out phlebotomy

• Undertake administrative duties such as preparing clinic notes and patient information leaflets

• When required support the Outpatients Department.

Our Ideal Healthcare Assistant Pre-assessment will:

• Have a variety of Outpatients/ Phlebotomy experience (if not currently competent training will be given to the right candidate)

• Be patient focused and able to demonstrate excellent communication skills.

• Be a real team player.

• Good IT skills

• Have a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage a wide range of activities and changing priorities.

• Have a flexible approach. A passion for development and training are also essential.

• Able to work as part of a small team

• Be qualified to NVQ Level 2 or 3 with relevant experience in an acute hospital or care setting.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health we take care of whats important to you.

Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital

Shrewsbury hospital ranked as Good in the last CQC inspection is purpose built and well equipped with 30 en-suite bedrooms 3 operating theatres an endoscopy suite an Ambulatory Care Unit and a busy outpatients department which includes physiotherapy and diagnostic imaging. Our diagnostic provision includes X-ray Ultrasound MRI and CT facilities.

We offer the most up to date surgical treatments combined with a warm welcome and a professional and caring service from our matron-led nursing team. We specialise in the areas of orthopaedics ophthalmology cosmetic surgery and womens health but also undertake general surgery urology and interventions for chronic pain management.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want today.

If you like what you see why not start your application now We consider applications as wereceive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So its a good idea to apply right away to ensure youre considered for this role.

It starts with you.