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Posting date: 08 November 2024
Salary: £24,071.00 to £25,674.00 per year
Additional salary information: £24071.00 – £25674.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 22 November 2024
Location: Salisbury, SP2 8BJ
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: C9269-24-0765

Health Care Assistant Job Summary

Have you considered Health Care Assistant nursing role in Outpatients?

The Plastic Surgery Outpatient Team would welcome applications from Senior Health Care Assistants who enjoy working independently and working within a team in being instrumental in providing patient focused care.

This is a part time role of 33.0 hours per week over three days with shift pattern hours of 8am to 5pm to meet the demands of the service.

The successful Health Care Assistant candidate will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative and willing to take on a variety of duties, whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail.

You will ideally have knowledge or experience within plastic surgery and/or surgical runner skills.

Within this role, there are numerous learning opportunities. We offer a supportive working environment and we are committed to the development of our staff.

PREVIOUS CANDIDATES NEED NOT APPLY

 

Health Care Assistant Main duties

Highlighted below are some of the nursing skills needed for a fast paced working area such as Plastic Surgery Outpatients :

  • The ability to work both independently and as part of the wider Multidisciplinary Team
  • Supporting and assisting your consultant colleagues in the smooth running of their clinics.
  • Acting as a chaperone.
  • Surgical scrub skills for supporting our outpatient minor surgical and emergency trauma lists. However if you do not have these skills, we will support you in obtaining competenciesto support this service.

As part of the Plastic Surgery nursing team you will support our qualified staff in undertaking all aspects of outpatient care including clinics, simple wound dressings and runner in minor operations. If you do not already possess circulating skills additional training will be given to support you in this role.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities

 

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

 

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

 

Person Specification

Application Form and Interview

Essential

  • Customer Service relations experience
  • Care Certificate
  • Numeracy and Literacy Level 2/GCSE Math and English Grade A-C
  • At least one years’ secondary care experience in Outpatients and/or Theatres

Desirable

  • Flexible to service demands
  • Evidence of additional training
  • Previous health care experience related to Burns and Plastics
  • NVQ in Health or Social Care Level 3

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.