Senior Health Care Assistants (Pre-op)

at  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

The role is of a Senior Health Care Assistant working alongside and supporting the pre-operative assessment practitioners in ensuring patients receive the optimum care in ensuring that the patients are fully optimised prior to surgery. The role will involve ensuring that the department is clean and tidy along with some administrative and other duties as requested by the senior team.
The primary role is that of performing venepucture, ECG MRSA screening with the collection of urine samples. You will also be expected to support the surgical wards in the division in ensuring any blood samples which have been requested are taken in a timely manner which both supports the elective surgical pathway and patient flow within the division.
Following the completion of appropriate training and assessment and under the direction of a Registered Healthcare Professional undertake: -
o Urine testing / urine analysis
o ECG recording,
o Glucose monitoring
o Medical devices
o Wound care using ANTT
o Venepuncture

as per Trust policy, reporting results to the Registered Healthcare Professional on duty.

• Chaperone the patient as required ensuring appropriate support.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Please refer the Job description for details