Health Care Assistant Job summary
| Posting date: | 12 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £23,615.00 to £23,615.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £23615.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2024 |
| Location: | Wolverhampton, WV100QP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9225-24-0804 |
The Dermatology Outpatients department is looking for an enthusiastic and competent Health Care Assistant to join our growing team based at New Cross Hospital, supporting Mohs surgery. The post holder must work well within a high performing team, complimenting the exceptional care delivered to patients undergoing surgery for treatment of skin cancer.
The health Care assistant must be able to support the nursing and medical team during clinics, ensuring clinics are set up and running efficiently whilst working with the team to maintain a safe working environment.
Health Care Assistant Main duties
The health Care assistant will undertake a range of clinic activities under the indirect supervision of registered nurses and band 3 HCA’s. These activities include
- Running of Dermatology clinics, ensuring a consistent flow of patients
- Chaperoning Consultants/Nurses when needed
- Assisting in Minor Surgery, with small procedures or as part of a larger team for larger surgery’s/Mohs
- Weekly stocking up and stock checks
- Maintaining a clean and safe work environment
- Taking calls from patients with queries and passing them on to the relevant health care professional.
- Participating in departmental audits and ordering of stock
- It is essential the post holder has adequate computer skills, a variety of computer systems will be used (for which training will be given).
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as“Good”by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.