# Perioperative Healthcare Assistant

**Company**: New Victoria Hospital
**Location**: New Victoria Hospital
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £27,878 per annum
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

New Victoria Hospital in Kingston upon Thames is a well-established private hospital offering a wide range of elective surgical services. The theatre department consists of 3 operating theatres and 1 dedicated endoscopy unit, supporting specialties including Orthopaedics, ENT, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology and Endoscopy, providing staff with exposure to a varied and high-quality surgical caseload.

Under direct supervision, you'll assist the multi-disciplinary theatre team in providing high-quality care for patients in the theatre department, ensuring patient dignity, privacy and an excellent patient experience.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Participate in the direct care of patients in support of a registered nurse or operating department practitioner, prior to, during and following surgery.

- Able to develop a good rapport with patients, responding to patient distress and anxiety appropriately.

- Scrub and circulate for procedures as allocated by qualified peri-operative practitioner and prepare for lists as per departmental procedure.

- Maintain safe systems of practice, familiarise themselves with risk assessments and any procedures designed to promote safe systems of practice.

- Ensure that all equipment and surgical instruments are used in accordance with manufacturer instructions, taken out of service when faulty and promptly repaired.

- Help maintain stock levels within the department.

- Ensure the department is clean and tidy and well stocked at all times.

- Assist with the moving and handling as well as the positioning of patients for surgery.

**What We're Looking For**

- Minimum of 6 months experience as a HCA within a perioperative (or equivalent) setting

- Educated to GCSE or equivalent (including English and Maths)

- Planning and organising skills

- Exceptional communicator

- Ability to work as part of a team

**Benefits**

- Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + bank holidays increasing with length of service

- In-house training for all staff

- Company pension scheme

- Life assurance

- Employee Referral Scheme

- Access to subsidised staff restaurant

- Interest free travel loan

- Private healthcare (T&Cs Apply)

- Bicycle Loan Scheme

- Retailer discounts

- Employee Assistance Programme

## Skills

### Required
- planning and organising
- communication
- teamwork

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