Bank Healthcare Assistant
Job Description
Job title: Bank Healthcare Assistant
Company: Spire Healthcare
Job description: Job Description:
Bank Healthcare Assistant | Spire Shawfair Park- Edinburgh | Competitive hourly rate of pay
Spire Shawfair Park Hospital in Edinburgh is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join their busy Outpatients department, on a bank basis.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and well being
- Assess the health and well being needs of people whose needs are relatively stable and consistent
- Establish and maintain communication with people on routine care matters
- Monitor and maintain health and safety and security for self and others
- Contribute to the implementation of services
- Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights
- Collect, collate and report routine and simple data and information
- Assist in the application of technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment
- Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI
- Assisting in maintaining agreed stock levels of consumable items
- Preparing and assisting with general and specialised procedures including biopsies
- Ensuring a clean and hygienic working environment
- Preparing patients for treatment
- Being involved in the manual handling of patients
- Recognising equipment faults and reporting these immediately
- Undertaking basic maintenance of equipment
The ideal candidate:
- Ideally should be SVQ level 2 trained
- Experience in a customer facing role providing high standards of customer care
- Administrative experience involving checking and monitoring
- Awareness of Health and Safety and hygiene
Benefits
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist resourcing team.
We commit to our employee’s well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
For us, it’s more than just treating patients; it’s about looking after people.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Expected salary:
Location: Edinburgh – Midlothian
