Healthcare Assistant - Endoscopy

With the ever-increasing number of treatments, consultations and care we see ourselves offering to patients, our Endoscopy Unit based at Southampton hospital, have an opening for a new Healthcare Assistant to join our dynamic and family orientated Endoscopy team. Our services include gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, cystoscopy, hysteroscopy and urodynamic procedures. We also provide phlebotomy, pre-assessment and outpatient clinics for the above specialities.

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The Endoscopy Healthcare Assistants work a busy role in a fast-paced environment, providing that individual patient centred care coupled with that efficient and effective service to referring GPs!, As one of our Endoscopy Healthcare Assistants, you will be working alongside the team supporting in providing high quality patient centred care. Youll be responsible for all the departmental cleaning and assist with stock management, equipment checking before and after each clinic. Being an Endoscopy Healthcare Assistant will see you lead the outpatient clinics alongside the consultant. Youll support the team in admissions and recovery and will be an asset to the department and a patient advocate at their most vulnerable time. Youll assist prepare clinical areas for clinical activities to ensure the smooth running of the Endoscopy Unit. You will be expected to keep an up-to-date good practice, maintain core competencies and continue to develop skills appropriate to the Endoscopy practice. Adhere to good record keeping in line with Practice Plus Group policies and procedures.

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. Youll be an effective communicator at all levels, both written and verbal with strong IT skills, being familiar with MS Office tools and able to pick up new systems easily. Everything we do is focused on providing a high standard of safe and effective patient care. When youre part of the Practice Plus Group team, you dont just have a job, you have a career!

Working on a rota pattern spread across Monday to Friday 07:30 to 18:30 x 3 days Plus One 6-hour shift either morning or afternoon to suite needs of the service