Healthcare Assistant - Band 3

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

The post holder will ensure that high quality nursing care is delivered to the patient and work as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team. The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands on clinical practice, education and training

HCA - BAND 3 - FIXED TERM 12 MONTHS

We are looking for a Health Care Assistant to join our Urology department within the Urology Centre at Epsom Hospital, fixed term in view of becoming a substantive post.
The Urology Centre is a very busy unit with a well-established friendly team of nurses and radiographers.
Working hours: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00. This is subject to slight change upon needs of the service.
We need a unique person for this role that is positive,enthusiastic to learn, and works well within a team.
The successful candidate will have the full support of the very experienced Urology nurses within the department, in addition to a very engaged Consultant team who are all willing to support you to meet your training needs.
You will undertake a range of duties within the centre, p roviding a nursing assistant role to the multidisciplinary team and when necessary working without direct supervision to ensure the delivery of effective high quality care.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Willingness to undertake further education
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Healthcare Assistant role at Epsom and St Helier.