Theatre Healthcare Assistant - Slough, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Slough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Wexham Park Hospital in Slough is part of the Frimley Park NHS foundation Trust and we are currently seeking Health Care Assistants to join our dedicated General Team.

A Healthcare assistant in operating theatres works as part of the multidisciplinary team. They assist setting up theatres and preparing the theatre and patient for surgery. The HCA assists the theatre practitioners and surgical team during surgical procedures with equipment, instruments and patient care.

Frimley Health NHS Trust is committed to the ongoing training and development of healthcare assistants with opportunities to participate in further development.

You should be able to demonstrate the trust values of committed to excellence, working together and facing the future.

Applications are for full time 37.5 hours worked over 3/4 days, doing 07:30 - 19:30 shifts from Monday to Saturday.

Applicants should be willing to do cross-site working with Wexham Park Hospital, Heatherwood and Frimley Park Hospital if required.

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake any necessary housekeeping if required to ensure a suitable

theatre environment.

Participate in providing physical and psychological support to the patient.
To assist the surgical team with assigned tasks.
To adhere to policies regarding confidentiality.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

The role of the Healthcare assistant in the operating theatres is vital and full training will be given

Your role will include:

Preparation of operating theatres for surgery. Setting up equipment, instruments, inputting data onto computers.
Cleaning and maintaining the theatres and store areas.
Assisting the theatre practitioners during theatre lists.
Assisting in the anaesthetic room prior to surgery.

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.