Health Care Assistant

1 week ago

Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

The Role:


As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide clinical/administrative support to maternity staff to ensure safe effective women and baby-centred care.

Ensure compliance with NHS Policy and procedures and support the multi-disciplinary team.

NHS Lanarkshire:

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire.

NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provides hospital-based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.


What we'll need you to bring:

  • Knowledge of personal care and related procedures or previous volunteer or work experience in a health, education or social environment.
  • Required to undertake on the job training and induction
  • Undertake mandatory HCSW standards
  • Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment.
  • Working knowledge of basic information technology.

Contract type:

  • Permanent
  • Fulltime and parttime
  • Various hours
  • Please note this is a parttime post and the salary for this position will be prorata.

Location and Working Pattern:

This role will be based in the Maternity Department within University Hospital Wishaw.

The working pattern for this role is Rotational

Looking to find out more?:

If you're looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you

Why NHS Lanarkshire?:


Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.


Some of NHS Lanarkshire's benefits include:

  • A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with the length of service
  • A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
  • Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
  • Paid sick leave increases with length of service
  • Occupational health services
  • Employee Counselling services
  • Worklife Balance policies and procedures


NHS Lanarkshire has a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling.

This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information:

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description.

If you're looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack or our recruitment webpage.


Additional Information for Applicants:

  • Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society.

A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.


  • Careexperienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children's setting/secure unit.


Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interviews may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.


Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.


NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.


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