Description
The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join the Outpatient Department. The Outpatient Department is often a patient's first experience of the hospital, and we aim to deliver first-class standards of care where the patient is at the heart of every decision.
The successful candidate will be part of a good team who strive to deliver our vision and values every day. The department has 25 consulting rooms with equipment specific to the various specialties we support and is in spacious, comfortable surroundings. We offer all staff the opportunity to support various specialty clinics and we have a minor procedure room where we undertake some further procedures under local anaesthetic.
The main duties of the job include:
- Maintaining confidentiality surrounding patient treatment at all times
- Ensuring documentation is completed accurately and within agreed timescales using Hospital-approved documentation, in line with Hospital guidelines
- Having knowledge of and adhering to Hospital policy and professional standards
- Ensuring the provision of excellent, evidence-based care for patients
- Assessing patients, planning, implementing, and evaluating their care, and accurately documenting this
- Participating in effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives, and visitors
- Ensuring quality care is given, by being familiar with agreed standards of care and informing seniors if the required standard cannot be reached
The ideal candidate will have excellent clinical skills, be an excellent communicator, and have professional commitment and self-awareness. They will be able to motivate themselves and others, work within a multidisciplinary team, and have good organisational and time management skills.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.