Bank Healthcare Assistant

**Bank Healthcare Assistant | Spire Murrayfield Hospital - Edinburgh | Competitive rates of pay**

Spire Murrayfield Hospital is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to assist the multi-disciplinary team by providing exemplary care, in the Pre-Operative Assessment Department.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and well being
- Establish and maintain communication with people on routine care matters
- Develop own and others’ personal development
- Contribute to the implementation of services
- Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI
- Departmental representative as delegated
- Communicates any special requirements and essential resources to the multidisciplinary MDT team
- Ensure completion of competencies, relevant training and development
- Ensures work load is carried out efficiently and to agreed standardised working practice and protocols
- Maintain a safe environment for patients, visitors and colleagues
- Work to national and local best practice policy and guidance
- Attend POA meetings and daily POA huddles where clinical outcome data is captured on POA clinical assurance board
- Healthcare Assistant experience - Level 3 NVQ
- Phlebotomy experience
- Ability to undertake ECG’s
- Experience of planning work and acting under own initiative
- Patient/customer facing experience

**Benefits**:

- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

**_For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people. _**

About Us: At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.

We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to _'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care' _. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.

About the Team: Since 1984 Spire Edinburgh Hospitals have been delivering outstanding healthcare in the east of Scotland. We work with leading consultant physicians and surgeons to offer an extensive suite of services for diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions.