Health Care Assistant

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic person to join our team at the Urgent Gynaecology Care centre/early pregnancy unit at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.
This vacancy is linked to a level 2 apprenticeship. This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role. Working alongside the Trust’s experienced staff you will be supported to gain the apprenticeship qualification and functional skills in maths and English if required. This is a great opportunity to gain a national recognised qualification while you are working and earning, which will support you in both this role and in your future career at Frimley Health.
You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar qualification.
As an integral member of the Department team you will provide support to the nursing and medical staff in the direct provision of patient care.
You will provide a range of health care and non-nursing duties, always ensuring an efficient and effective service to the Department.
Main duties are detailed in the attached Job Description and will include:
Supporting the patients during there clinic appointments.
Working with other members of the multi disciplinary team
Setting up and cleaning down the rooms.
Ensuring that there is adequate stock for the clinics
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
For full details, please refer to the attached Job Description, some of the key job responsibilities will include:
To ensure that all patients, visitors and staff are treated in a courteous, professional and caring manner and receive prompt assistance when required.
To always maintain the patient’s dignity.
To always adhere to hospital policy in relation to patient confidentiality.
To be aware of their responsibilities under the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act. Care should be taken in all aspects of work to ensure that these and other safety regulations, e.g. C.O.S.H.H. and Manual Handling Policy are adhered to.
To report any accidents and/or incidents occurring to patients, visitors, staff or oneself according to hospital policy.
To be aware of procedures to be followed in the case of Fire, Cardiac Arrest and any other emergencies

Please refer the Job description for details