Healthcare Assistant - Outpatients

Healthcare Assistant – Outpatients (Bank)

Chichester Hospital | Nursing | Bank Contract | Includes weekend work |
£13.10 per hour

Open Monday to Friday 07:30am-20:30pm and Saturdays 08:00am-14:30pm

Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our   community access programmes, we’re committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you. 

As a Healthcare Assistant in Outpatients at our hospital, you’ll bring relevant experience, a keen eye for detail and a flexible approach. You demonstrate patience, focus and excellent communication skills. A real team player, you have the diligence, IT literacy and passion for development and training to make a difference.  You will be qualified with an NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care or Care Certificate. We would need Hospital experience especially with Opthalmic and Outpatients or with relevant experience in an acute hospital setting. 

As a Healthcare Assistant in Outpatients, you will:  

• Assist colleagues in surgical and medical specialties including minor operations.

• 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  

• Assist consultants and nurses with procedures, such as dressings and wound care
• Carry out Venipuncture

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.  

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking.  The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres, Three minor treatment rooms in the outpatient department.  There is a small radiology department and CT/ MRI services are provided in a mobile unit.  Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments.  Our main speciality is orthopaedics. We also care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, respiratory and rheumatology.

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It starts with you.