Healthcare Assistant - Ascot, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Ascot, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly Pre-Op Assessment Department.

Our Working hours are Monday - Friday.

The Pre-Operative Department is a key element in providing a high-quality service to patients and in achieving agreed standards within the trust.

We are looking for a motivated and resilient healthcare assistant, with a "can do" attitude, to join our team.

You will be responsible for assisting qualified staff by taking bloods, MRSA swabs and performing ECGs. Urine testing, reception duties. There is also a requirement for some administrative duties. Preparing notes for clinics. The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills and a commitment to maintaining high standards of care. A friendly and patient-centred approach is vital for this role.

It is also important that the applicant has a calming demeanour as most patients are quite anxious, nervous coming into hospital pre surgery.

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 behaviors 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.

For further information on the skills/knowledge required for this role, please check the job description/person specification attached