As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will assist the qualified staff in delivering a caring and effective, patient-focused service in keeping with the aims, objectives, and standards of the Trust. The care you give to patients will be compassionate, caring, and high quality. You will recognize your abilities and limitations of your competence and only carry out those tasks for which you are trained. As a member of the department team, you will support the other staff, act in the best interest of patients, and treat everyone with respect. As a Trust employee, you will honor your work commitments, be reliable, trustworthy, and uphold the values and beliefs of the Trust and the Skills for Health Code of Conduct.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
About us
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre, and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery, and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
* Educated to GCSE grade C or equivalent in key skills level 2 or functional skills level 2 numeracy and literacy.
* Care Certificate
* Experience of working in an acute care environment.
* Basic IT skills
* Experience within a pre-op assessment or clinic setting
* Be proficient in venepuncture skills.
* Ability to complete ECG recordings
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata
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