Healthcare Assistant - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Newcastle Eye Centre is one of the largest in the UK, treating and caring for over 120,000 patients each year.

We are a regional centre of excellence providing a highly specialised service treating all types of eye conditions in both adults and children.


We offer an exciting opportunity for Band 3 Healthcare Assistants with an interest in Ophthalmology to join our team, supporting clinics at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, our Cramlington base and Outreach Clinics.

You will work alongside our highly skilled nursing team together with our wider multi disciplinary team who all strive to provide the highest standard of patient care.

Ophthalmic experience is not essential as full training will be provided.
Interview Date: 7 June 202- 2 Full Time Posts 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

  • Contributes to the work of the department by working under mínimal supervision of registered practitioners or assistant practitioners. On occasions the post holder may be required to run a clinic without a qualified nurse and may be required to supervise junior staff.
  • Will carry out delegated, repetitive, routine and familiar tasks.
  • Have an awareness of normal parameters concerning patient / client wellbeing and report that which is out with normal parameters to the registered professional.
  • Will plan and prioritise their own delegated work tasks and activities.
  • Will carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner.


Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


Rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
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  • To abide by Trust policies and procedures.
  • To assist the Registered Nurses or other registered health care practitioners in providing high quality patient care.
  • Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times.
  • Be an effective part of the multidisciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
  • Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
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