Bank Healthcare Assistant | Pre-Assessment | Spire Bushey Hospital | Bank | Competitive rate
Spire Bushey Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join their dedicated team on a bank, zero-hour contract
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.
1. Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and wellbeing.
2. Assist in the delivery of care to meet individuals’ health and wellbeing needs
3. Establish and maintain communication with people on routine care matters
4. Contribute to own personal development.
5. Assist in maintaining own and others’ health and safety and security.
6. Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
7. Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and rights
8. Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
9. To maintain standards of infection control within the hospital and own department and to assist patients to maintain their own infection control needs
10. To ensure that Clinical Governance and risk management are embedded within daily practice.
11. 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.
12. To meet Spire values, whilst delivering care to patients and relatives
13. To adhere to the relevant Codes of Conduct, Guidelines and Spire Policies, Procedures, Protocols and Standards at all times
14. Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post.
Who we're looking for:
15. Working as part of a team
16. Flexible to work and working patterns
17. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
18. Experience of working as healthcare assistant within a hospital environment
19. Basic Clinical Observation skills
20. Basic Nursing Care
21. Awareness of health, safety and hygiene
22. Phlebotomy and ECG training - desirable
23. NVQ Level 3 in healthcare or equivalent - desirable
Benefits:
24. Bank colleagues are paid weekly
25. We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
26. Unsocial Enhancements, dependent upon shift pattern worked (won’t be applicable for all)
27. Access to Spire Healthcare pension
28. Access to Blue Light Card discounts
29. Smart spending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
30. Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You'
31. Free uniform
32. Free DBS
33. Full induction, including mandatory training updates
34. Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
35. Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
36. We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness or annual leave.