Healthcare Assistant
Practice Plus Group Holdings Limited, Bedford Place, City of Southampton
Healthcare Assistant
£22383
Practice Plus Group Holdings Limited, Bedford Place, City of Southampton
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 days ago, 18 Oct | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 0681061d83084381a13b85de56bbe183
Full Job Description
- What would you say are the primary responsibilities of a Healthcare Assistant working in an outpatients' department?
- As a knowledgeable Healthcare Assistant, what extended healthcare skills would you say you have?
- Would you like the chance to play your role as part of a committed and focused team? The Healthcare Assistants will be hands-on, supporting Doctors, registered Nurses and other professional staff with the overall responsibility for all patients within the outpatient department. These are permanent positions, working a 4-day week shift patterns will be from Monday to Saturday 3 days from 08:00 to 18:00 1 day from 08:00 to 17:30 As our Healthcare Assistants you'll be ensuring that our patients receive a high standard of care by carrying out routine patient monitoring and care duties that will be relevant to each patient. You'll be expected to have gained up to date knowledge of your patient, by investigating the patent pathway. You'll need to competently and accurately update patient records, ensuring the patient pathway is being followed and documented. This will be performed via our internal patient system. You'll make sure your patients are prepared and ready for any treatments or surgery booked and ensure all necessary checks are conducted prior to a treatment or surgery taking place. The appointed Healthcare Assistants will perform phlebotomy when required and work closely with the Lab Technicians, by providing required cross-referencing detail and background information relating to the patient and the blood sample taken. There will be elements of administration tasks to be carried out, you may be called upon to collect all patient information together for admissions and discharging or for follow-up calls. You may be required to photocopy particulars and transport patient paperwork to other departments. You will be conscious of health, safety and hygiene aspects in a department. Not only will you look to make sure the department is clean, you will monitor and look for potential hazards, ensuring they are made safe or the issue is quickly bright to the attention or the Department Manager.
It is envisaged that the appointed Healthcare Assistant will have past working experience a hospital / clinical environment and might have already completed the NVQ level 1&2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent. You'll have experience as a phlebotomist in the past, having taken blood samples from patients and worked closely with the laboratory to assess the samples taken. You will be familiar with conducting ECG's scans and working closely, directly with Doctors to support patient within your care. You'll be computer literate, familiar with accurately updating records and databases with the ability to pick up new systems easily. You'll be an effective communicator at all levels, both written and verbal you will be liaising with different departments internal and external, face to face, via email or over the phone, as well as family, friends or carers of your patients.
Free access to Reward Gateway discount scheme Blue Light Card, Boundless card and Costco membership eligibility Award winning ED&I programme Access to private health insuranceTraining & Development Tailored CPD training delivered via our bespoke Learning Management System. Extensive training courses accessible via Practice Plus Group Skills Academy. Great development and career progression opportunities. You get to know people over the weeks and months, and you can see them start to improve when they are having treatment…it's really nice, you can make a difference and help someone overcome difficulties.