Job overview
A vacancy has arisen for an Advanced HCA to join the Sexual Health and Contraception Team. Working at Barking Hospital, and at sites within Barking, Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, the successful applicant will be supported to become confident and competent in seeing patients independently for testing for sexually transmitted infections and advice. You will be working as part of a friendly and welcoming team to provide support to clinicians and patients; carrying out both clinical and administrative duties.
All interviews will be held face to face
Main duties of the job
To provide assistance for medical staff and Registered Nurses including chaperoning duties in line with the Trust’s Chaperone Policy.
In some settings the post holder will work unsupervised under strict protocol for example to develop skills and knowledge of basic condom demonstration, to be able to signpost clients to appropriate services, provide basic health sexual health advice / promotion to patients, to guide patients when undertaking swabs, to process urine samples, carry out physiological measurements for patients i.e. Blood Pressure, performing venepuncture, have the skills to be able to undertake microscopy and perform pregnancy testing. All skills will be subject to training and competency assessment.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Person specification
Education/ Qualification
Essential criteria
1. Good standard of basic education
Desirable criteria
2. Educated to NVQ level3 in health related subject or working towards
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
3. Good communication skills, both verbal and written
Desirable criteria
4. Phlebotomy Skills
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Experience of supporting patients to promote their health
Desirable criteria
6. Experience of working in sexual health, family planning or HIV care
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone 01708 435000 5936