# Bank Healthcare Assistant - Ward

**Company**: Spire Portsmouth Hospital
**Location**: Havant, Hampshire
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Spire Portsmouth Hospital has an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join the staffing bank as a Healthcare Assistant. This role forms an intrinsic part of our clinical team, working alongside our nursing staff in the surgical ward.

**Job Details:**

- Shifts: Monday to Sunday - Long day (0700-1930) or nights (1900-0730)

- Salary: Competitive rates for bank colleagues working on a flexible basis

**Responsibilities:**

- Assisting the team on the surgical ward in the provision of exemplary patient care

- Contributing to the support and monitoring of patients

- Identifying and reporting any significant changes that might affect the patient's health and well-being to the appropriate person

- Assisting with the movement of patients in line with hospital policies

**Requirements:**

- Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a clinical environment

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Experience in ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations

- It would be advantageous to hold an NVQ Level 3

**Benefits:**

- Bank colleagues are paid weekly

- Competitive rates for bank colleagues working on a flexible basis

- Unsocial Enhancements, dependent upon shift pattern worked

- Access to Spire Healthcare pension

- Access to Blue Light Card discounts

- Smart spending discounts via 'Spire for You'

- Wellbeing Centre access via 'Spire for You'

- Free uniform

- Free DBS

- Full induction, including mandatory training updates

- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts

## Skills

### Required
- ECGs
- blood pressure monitoring
- patient observations

### Nice to have
- NVQ Level 3

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