Senior Healthcare Assistant

3 months ago


Reading, United Kingdom Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Band 3 Senior Healthcare Assistant - Adult Day Surgery Unit / Chesterman Unit

This is a Full-Time post for 37.5 hours per week.

Theatre escort training is an advantage, although training will be given.

The Adult Day Surgery Unit / Chesterman Unit is looking for a Senior Healthcare Assistant to join our dynamic team.

We are a busy 34 bedded unit accommodating patients who are having day surgery - we care for both planned and emergency admissions for patients under going surgery, e.g. gynaecology, urology, general surgery, ENT, oral.

Chesterman is a 13 bedded admission suite for inpatient admissions.

Please contact the ward on 0118 322 7622 and ask to speak to the nurse in charge if you would like to arrange an informal visit to the unit or to enquire more about this vacancy.

You will be working under the supervision of the registered nurses and be involved in recording patients vital signs and recording on EPR, admitting patients who are having local anesthetic procedures, escorting patients to theatre after completing of the theatre escort course.

Competency of ECG and venepuncture is preferable, although willingness to undertake these skills is required if you do not already have them.

Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

**Our values**: C ompassionate, A spirational, R esourceful, E xcellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Caring for patients pre & post operatively - ensuring the unit is clean & tidy and assisting the qualified nurses:
1/ To assist the the registered nurse in patient care.

2/ Helping to prepare patients for theatre & escorting them to theatre.

3/ Daily ward tasks such as cleaning, putting away ward stock.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.


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