Senior Healthcare Assistant - Gynaecology

at  Northern Lincolnshire Goole NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Assistant to join our established team of Gynaecology staff at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust.
The post is available within the Family Services Care Group at Scunthorpe General Hospital. It is a rotational post to cover a 7 day emergency and outpatient service and provide in-reach to gynae patients on the general surgical wards. The shift pattern will include night shifts and weekends.
We are a friendly, small, supportive, well led team that can offer a variety of opportunities to further develop skills and knowledge within gynaecology and early pregnancy.
Caring for planned and emergency admissions provides lots of variety in each working day.
The Health Care Assistant post is to provide support and assistance to the Gynaecology nurses within both a Gynaecology SDEC and an outpatient setting, this includes colposcopy, outpatient hysteroscopy, minor operations, Early Pregnancy, pre assessment, oncology as well as Consultant outpatient clinics.
Our Gynaecology Same Day Emergency Care Unit is based next to SDEC within the new Integrated Acute Assessment Unit build. We accept referrals from ECC, GPOOH, outpatient clinics, midwives, GP’s and other health care professionals and aim to treat and discharge within the same day of attendance. For patients requiring a longer stay we have 2 ringfenced cubes within IAAU where treatment can be given.
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic Health Care Assistants who have a keen interest in all aspects of women’s health and care.
Previous care experience is desirable but not essential.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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Please refer the Job description for details