Advanced Health Care Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Pre-Assessment unit at The Diana princess of Wales Hospital for an advanced Healthcare Assistant to join our dedicated Pre-Assessment Nursing team.

We are seeking to recruit an advanced Healthcare Assistant who has a cheerful and friendly disposition to work full/part time. You must be enthusiastic, reliable, highly motivated with excellent communication skills and enjoy working within a busy team.

We are a passionate department all about putting patients first. We are looking for someone who feels the same to join our forward-thinking Pre-Assessment team, working across a variety of cases and supporting a wide range of specialties.

As an Advanced Healthcare Assistant in Pre-Assessment at our Hospital, you will bring relevant experience, a keen eye for detail and a flexible approach. You will demonstrate patience, focus and excellent communication skills. A real team player, you will show diligence, have IT literacy skills and passion for development and training to make a difference.

As an Advanced Healthcare Assistant in Pre-Assessment, you will:

• Put patient care first
• Carry out administrative duties such as completing pre assessment documentation and recording observation, height and weight. Calculating Must and BMI scores
• Desirably have phlebotomy skills and previous experience in performing ECGs
• Assist colleagues in pre assessing patients from multiple specialties including Orthopedics, Gynecology, ENT, General Surgery, Breast, Urology, colorectal and ophthalmology patients.
• Enjoy more time to care for patients as individuals
• Manage a wide range of activities and changing priorities
• Make sure the day-to-day operations of our various clinics run smoothly
• Working alongside the pre assessment in nurses in a 2:1 model

We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

Should we receive a high volume of applications for this vacancy, the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

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.