Healthcare Assistants

1 week ago


Warrington, United Kingdom Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT Full time

Job summary

The role of a Healthcare Assistant within the ophthalmology department, is an exciting role in which you are involved in the care of the patients and their families who are attending with acute ophthalmic conditions and long-standing ophthalmic conditions. You will be involved in taking and recording of visual acuity and ocular pressure tests in which the medical team can interpret to make a diagnosis for the patient.

Main duties of the job

You will be working within a highly skilled nursing team within the Ophthalmology Nursing Department.

You with be taking of various ophthalmic diagnostics tests and supporting patients to complete these tests

You will also have opportunity to support and assist the medical team, while they examine patients

You will also be supporting patients who require assistance while they are in the clinic environment

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To assist the nursing team in planning, implementation, and evaluation of holistic patient care To care for and assist patients as required. To work collaboratively and cooperatively with other in the ophthalmic team to meet the needs of the patients and their families. Participate in the development of self and others.

The full details of this role are available within the Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience working at NVQ 2 level within a clinical healthcare setting

Desirable

Previous experience of working in ophthalmology or related services

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to GSCE level or equivalent NVQ 2 (healthcare)

Desirable

Evidence of working at NVQ 3 level (healthcare) Ability

Skills

Essential

Good interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal Ability to cope with patient related emotionally sensitive and diverse situations Understanding of confidentiality Ability to plan own workload according to service need

Desirable

Basic IT keyboard skills
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