Band 2 Health Care Assistant

1 month ago

Solihull, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic, experienced Band 2 HCAs to become part of a well-established and progressive team.

A challenging and busy environment the Pre-Operative Assessment Service is a specialist team, providing assessment, investigations and information to a wide group of patients prior to surgery. Expected to uphold and ensure that high standards of care and professionalism are maintained and delivered with care and compassion.

Required to support a nurse led clinic performing ECG's, Phlebotomy and discussing Health Promotion with the patients. Your duties will include greeting the patients, taking and recording observations, height, weight, BMI and you will be expected to attend the trusts courses for performing phlebotomy, obtaining transfusion samples and performing ECG's. Following which you will receive mentorship to complete the competencies for these. In house training will also be given.

This is an exciting role for a band 2 HCA to work with patients to help plan their surgical journey and involves working closely with senior colleagues to ensure that patients are safe to undergo surgery and Anaesthesia.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
To ensure a high standard of patient care is delivered in an effective and efficient manner reflecting the overall philosophy of the service.

Contribute to the development of a learning culture to ensure growth and development of the team and the unit.

You will meet and greet the patients as they arrive, carry out their observations and investigations including ECG's and Phlebotomy.

You will use pics and clinical portal to document and outcome patients

Escalate any concerns to the senior care assistant and nurse in charge

Successful achievement of competencies and training is required to facilitate full undertaking of the role.

Please see attached job description for full duties.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
*Please Note : For a detailed person specification for this vacancy, please see attached person specification*

**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Experience of working / participating as part of a team.

Evidence of ability to work using own initiative and under mínimal supervision

Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the role and tasks involved

Can articulate the reasons for training/ standards of practice and behaviour and how these may be demonstrated / relate to patient care and safety

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