Healthcare Assistant - London, United Kingdom - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for 2 Health Care Assistants to come and join our team in Theatres in the newly built Surgical Treatment Centre at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.

The new facility will support faster treatment for local patients waiting for day surgery as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The theatres were set up as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to longer waiting times for patients waiting for routine operations and procedures across Southwest London.

The mobile theatres and dedicated recovery areas are standalone and will be located on a section of the hospital's existing car park.

These will be staffed and run by the Trust and will enable surgical teams to carry out many extra operations for a range of routine, day case procedures.

Patients will benefit from the creation of this dedicated, standalone day-surgery service, that will be separate from the other main hospital sites in south west London, ensuring a much reduced risk of cancellations.

All pre
- and post-operative care will still be provided at a patient's usual local hospital.

The new theatres will be Covid-secure and comply with the very latest infection prevention and control standards.

Theatre Health Care Assistants plays an important role in supporting patients and members of the multidisciplinary team.

They will have a role in setting up of theatres, reassuring patients, and carrying out safety checks with in the Theatre environment.

The development of the new Unit has created a wide range of opportunities to work in Theatres.

We will support your development every step of the way and make sure that you are armed with the skills you need to meet every challenge you will face by providing you with the highest standards of training and support on the job through:

Regular meetings with your Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Senior ODP
Mentor support from your Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Senior ODP during your induction and orientation
Support from your Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Senior ODP in the clinical area on shift
Protected teaching time each week
Practice Educator support
Competency based in house training

Demonstrate our Trust Values of being Excellent, Kind, Respectful and Responsible.

Successful post holder will already possess excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a small, busy, and dedicated team.

We offer competitive staff bank rates for staff who wish to work additional hours.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.

A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma.

Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.

The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.