Healthcare Assistant Gynaecology Outpatients

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

An opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Assistant to join the Gynaecology Outpatient Department in St Helier. You will be working in the Women’s health department supporting the team with various clinics such has Hysteroscopy, Colposcopy, Urogynaecology.
You will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills / Ability to work as a member of the team / be self-motivated and able to work under own initiative.The successful applicant will be joining a team of dedicated skilled staff, which include nurses, healthcare assistants, nurse associates and doctors. We are looking for enthusiasm, motivation, flexibility, hardworking and positive thinking .

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• good communication skills
  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.

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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

We are looking for an excellent health care assistant who has an interest in women’s health. Are you a caring and enthusiastic person with great people skills and the ability to work in a small team? If so we would love to hear from you.
The healthcare assistant / support worker will Provide patient centred, compassionate care at all times and advocate for the patient
The healthcare assistant is responsible for ensuring that patients are cared for in a safe environment and that privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role