As a Healthcare Assistant your key duties include:

• Undertaking basic patient observations (e.g., blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen saturation), recognising a deteriorating patient, and escalating appropriately to the supervising clinician
• Supporting the Express Care/Urgent Care team with patient triage flow, wound care assistance, dressings support and minor injuries chaperoning
• Assisting in Outpatients with clinic preparation, patient preparation and chaperoning across consultant and treatment rooms, and turning rooms around between appointments
• Supporting Theatres with patient preparation, safe transfers and positioning, chaperoning, and assisting with recovery/post-operative comfort under clinical direction

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:

• Prior experience as an HCA or Clinical Support Worker in at least one of the core areas - (Outpatients, Urgent Care/A&E, or Operating Theatres/Day Surgery)
• Proficiency or certification in venepuncture (drawing blood) and cannulation is highly desirable for Outpatient and Urgent Care pathways
• Understanding of sterile fields, basic infection control protocols within a theatre environment, and safe patient manual handling/positioning protocols