Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Healthcare Assistant - Gynaecology Ward
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About the Role
The Gynaecology team are seeking additional Senior Healthcare assistants to join our team on the Gynaecology ward and occasional assistant on the Gynae & Early Pregnancy assessment unit as needed based at the Sharoe Green Unit within the Royal Preston Hospital.
You will be a pivotal member of the clinical team who can champion the needs of women, you will be passionate and strive to make a difference for women and their families at an often difficult and stressful time of their lives.
We accommodate a diverse mixture of surgical and emergency patients within our 18 bedded area, offering a tertiary service for Gynae Oncology and Endometriosis patients as well as women experiencing pregnancy loss.
You will be organised, visionary, a role model for high standards, be interested in patients experience in order to deliver excellent care with compassion.
Responsibilities
- Provide a range of personalised care for patients under the guidance and supervision of the team leader/nurse in charge including: assisting patients with personal hygiene, toileting, use of continence aids, catheter care, measuring patient output, moving and handling, use of mobility appliances, correct patient positioning, ensuring patient safety, taking specimens and observing patients for changes in condition and psychological wellbeing support.
- Support the productive operation of the clinical environment by undertaking a range of non-clinical activities which contribute to the maintenance of a safe and clean environment.
- Act at all times in a manner that upholds the Trust values working as part of the ward / Unit team to ensure that patients and relatives receive excellent care with compassion.
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Requirements
We have 2 24 hour posts available.
Applicants must be able to work shifts across a 7 day week / 24 hour rotating shift pattern that includes, days, nights and weekends working long days 07:00 - 19:30 or 19:00 - 07:30.
Interview Date: (face to face only) TBC
About Us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 2.1 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
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Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Contact Us
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jacqueline Westby
- Job title: Ward manager
- Email address: jacqueline.westby@lthtr.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01772 524700
Ward Managers Jacqueline Westby or Liz Case on 01772 524700
or any of the deputy ward managers on 01772 52 4878
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