Healthcare Assistant/Oadby/Leicester /Bank/Ad-Hoc Shifts/ Day Shifts/Early/Lates
Spire Leicester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join the bank team.
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.
You must be able to drive to get to this location
Duties and responsibilities:
To assist the multi-disciplinary operating team to provide exemplary care by offering a timely portering service. The service will include escorting patients between ward, departments and theatre suite; Transporting equipment, medical records, meals, specimens and linen; Moving furniture.
1. Routine tasks related to patient’s health and wellbeing.
2. Production and communication of information and knowledge
3. Contribute to own personal development.
4. Assist in maintaining own and others’ health and safety and security.
5. Assist in maintaining and developing services.
6. Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
7. Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and rights.
8. Move patients, surgical equipment and goods.
9. Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
Who we're looking for:
10. Experience of acting under instruction.
11. Working as part of a team
12. Customer facing experience
13. Experience of working as a porter or another caring role based in a clinical environment
14. General portering abilities
15. Moving and handling competence.
16. Caring for others
17. Team working
18. Flexible and adaptable
19. Initiative and ownership
20. Pride and enthusiasm
Bank Benefits:
21. Bank colleagues are paid weekly
22. We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
23. Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
24. Access to Spire Healthcare pension
25. Access to Blue Light Card discounts
26. Smart spending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
27. Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You’
28. Free uniform
29. Free DBS
30. Full induction, including mandatory training updates
31. Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
32. 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:
33. Driving clinical excellence
34. Doing the right thing
35. Caring is our passion.
36. Keeping it simple
37. Delivering on our promises
38. 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.