Practice Plus Group
Bank - Theatre Healthcare Assistant
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Due to the increase in treatments and care we give to our patients, we have some availability for additional Healthcare Assistant’s to join our Theatres team on an ad-hoc basis, based at Emersons Green hospital, Bristol.
What would you say are the primary responsibilities of a Healthcare Assistant working in a Theatre environment?
What within your career experience would you highlight and utilise in this Theatre HCA position? Would you like the chance to play your role as part of a committed and focused team?
This will be a very supporting role, where you will be playing a fundamental part in ensuring a smooth patient journey by following and documenting the complete patient pathway.
This is a Bank / casual position, offering flexible working hours between Monday to Saturday and 07:30 to 17:00.
What you'll be doing
As one of our Theatre Healthcare Assistants, you will be assisting members of the theatre department, setting up theatres ready for your patient’s treatment to take place. The way you will set up a theatre will be depended on each individual patient’s case.
You will be expected to have gained up to date knowledge of your patient, by investigating the patient pathway, it will then be your responsibility of adding to and following that patient’s pathway, ensuring particulars such as; consent obtained before any treatment is carried out.
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It will be a case that your patients will be anesthetized, so there will not be so much of that verbal interaction with the patients in your care. You will need to ensure that your patient is prepared and ready with all necessary checks conducted prior to a for a treatment taking place, during a procedure. You’ll be ensuring that your patient receives a high standard of care by carrying out your routine monitoring.
You will need to competently and accurately update patient records, ensuring the patient pathway is being followed and documented.
As the Healthcare Assistant, you will be conscious of health, safety and hygiene aspects in a theatre. Not only will you look to make sure the theatre is clean, you will monitor and look for potential hazards, ensuring they are made safe or the issue is quickly brought to the attention of the Ward Manager.
What we'll look for in you
The ideal candidate will have past surgical experience within a hospital or clinical environment and will have already completed the NVQ level 1&2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
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You will be a strong communicator, confident to converse at all levels, both written and verbal. You will be communicating with a wide range of people, from internal colleagues from varied departments to patients, their families and friends.
You will be computer literate, confident with writing letters, and emailing internal and external parties relating to your patient’s care. You should be familiar with MS Office tools and have examples of having to quickly learn a new system as you will be using our in-house system on a daily basis.
To apply for the role, click on the link below. If you have any questions contact Thomas.Quirke@practiceplusgroup.com.
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted but please note, Practice Plus Group retain the right to remove the advert prior to the closing date if a suitable candidate is appointed.
Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.
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