Urology Support Healthcare Assistant - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Colchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is in the position to offer you a fantastic opportunity We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join our Urology department within the Urology Diagnostic Unit (UDU) at Colchester Hospital, fixed term/secondment until 1st November 2023.

Internal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only.

The UDU is a very busy unit with a well-established friendly team of nurses.

We need a unique person for this role, you must be positively welcoming, effective and hard working.

Please note you maybe required to undertake a Numeracy & Literacy test as part of the pre employment checks.

You will undertake a range of duties within the UDU.

Providing a nursing assistant role to the multidisciplinary team and when necessary working without direct supervision to ensure the delivery of effective high quality care.

One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

To fully prepare the patient for urological investigations
Escorting patients to and from changing room into correct procedure room, ensuring that the right patient is receiving the necessary procedure or treatment.
Helping the patients on the examination couch, maintaining dignity at all times
Assisting the trained nurses with clinical/diagnostic tasks.
To deliver individualised patient car, being aware of their physical and psychological needs, whilst respecting their dignity and privacy, at all times having regard to every individual's religious/cultural beliefs/practices.
Demonstrate and implement a working knowledge of the Infection Control Policy.
To establish good relationships with all personnel, and demonstrate awareness of their own ability and role in relation to that of the rest of their team
Perform clinical tasks under the supervision of trained staff members of staff until competence has been achieved.
Demonstrate proficiency in visual and clinical observations of patients undergoing treatment including timely and effective reporting and intervention when required