Covering Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays or a Saturday

Main duties of the job

As one of our Theatre Healthcare Assistants, you will be assisting members of the theatre department, setting up theatres ready for your patients treatment to take place. The way you will set up a theatre will be depended on each individual patents case.

You will be expected to have gained up to date knowledge of your patient, by investigating the patent pathway, it will then be your responsibility of adding to and following that patents pathway, ensuring particulars such as; consent obtained before any treatment is carried out.

It will be a case that your patients will be anesthetized, so there will not be so much of that verbal interaction with the patents in your care. You will need to ensure that your patient is prepared and ready with all necessary checks conducted prior to a for a treatment taking place, during a procedure. youll be ensuring that your patient receives a high standard of care by carrying out your routine monitoring.

You will need to competently an accurately update patient records, ensuring the patient pathway is being followed and documented.

As the Healthcare Assistant, you will be conscious of health, safety and hygiene aspects in a theatre. Not only will you look to make sure the theatre is clean, you will monitor and look for potential hazards, ensuring they are made safe or the issue is quickly bright to the attention or the Theatre Manger.

About us

You might have past experience of working in a care home, hospital or clinical environment and might have already completed the NVQ level 1&2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent.

You will a strong communicator, confident to converse at all levels, both written and verbal. You will be communicating with a wide range of people, from internal colleagues from varied departments to patients, their families and friends.

You will computer literate, confident with writing letters, and emailing internal and external parties relating toy your patients care. You should be familiar with MS office tools and have examples of having to quickly learn a new system as you will be using our in-house system on a daily basis.

To apply for the role, click on the link below. If you have any questions contact kaleb.gumbs@practiceplusgroup.com.

All shortlisted candidate will be contacted but please note, Practice Plus Group retain the right to remove the advert prior to the closing date if a suitable candidate is appointed.

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

At Practice Plus Group, we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities.