Healthcare Assistant

**Do you enjoy helping and caring for others?**

At BPAS we are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join the theatre team in our Oxford unit on a part time basis. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside our Nurses & Midwives in order to provide the best client care.

You will assist the clinical team to maintain & improve high standards of client care within the operating department & recovery areas of the unit. You will also carry out assigned tasks unsupervised in support of a registered practitioner & care for our clients.
- **Please note this role is to be worked on a Thursday between 08:30-16:30**_

**About You**

You will have experience working in healthcare especially in a hospital, GP practice or operating theatre setting. With a positive “can do” attitude you will enjoy working as a part of a team and be passionate about helping and caring for others.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To assist with the care, support and observations of the client before and after treatment, report findings to the Registered Practitioners.
- To assist in the preparation and serving of refreshments
- Help check and prepare the operating department environment and equipment prior to use, between clients and at the end of a list.
- Undertake counts of swabs, instruments and needles in conjunction with another trained member of the surgical team, and assist the surgical team during surgical procedures.
- To have an understanding of clients' individual needs and to maintain a helpful, courteous approach to clients, visitors and colleagues.

**We are also looking for**:

- Care certificate in healthcare / NVQ Level 3 in health and social care /Diploma in health and support level 3
- Positive attitude to change
- Willingness to learn
- IT skills

**About us**

British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UKs largest independent womens reproductive healthcare charity. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS across the country providing abortion, contraception, STI testing & treatment and fertility services. We specialise in evidence-based, not-for-profit care reproductive healthcare.

**Working with us**:
We are always on the look out for talented special people to join the BPAS team.

Alongside a supportive and friendly working environment, BPAS has generous benefits including life assurance cover at 3 times salary, 34 days annual leave per year and a defined contribution pension scheme you will also have access to our employee benefits programme through BHSF which includes special health and wellbeing services, as well as lifestyle offers for you and your family. This includes various salary sacrifice schemes, counselling services and free private GP appointments.

For our clinical roles, a full clinical training package will be provided along with comprehensive support. Nursing and midwifery colleagues will have the opportunity to train in first and second trimester sonography scanning as well as contraception fitting and STI testing. For units offering a surgical service you could also gain experience in conscious sedation and general anaesthetic treatment in our operating departments.

**Further Information**

**Location**:BPAS Oxford, 1st Floor, Rectory Centre, 27-29 Rectory Road, Oxford, OX4 1BU

**Salary**: £11.01 - £14.27 per hour - Depending on skills and experience

**Shift Pattern**: 7.5 Hours per week | Thursday | 8.30-4.30

The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.

If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.

References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.

COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 7.5 per week

**Salary**: £11.01-£14.27 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Do you have experience of working in healthcare especially in a hospital, GP practice or operating theatre setting?
- Do you possess English and Maths qualification either GCSE A to C or Functional Skills Level 2 or GCSE 4* or NVQ level 2?
- Do you possess a NVQ Level 3 in health and social care?
- Are you aware this role is for 7.5 hours per week on a Thursday - 08:30-16:30 at our Oxford unit? Can you commit to this?

Work Location: In person

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