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Job overview
Have you considered nursing in Outpatients?
The Plastic Surgery Outpatient Team would welcome applications from Senior Health Care Assistants who enjoy working independently and within a team to provide patient-focused care.
This is a part-time role of 33.0 hours per week over three days with shift pattern hours of 8am to 5pm to meet the demands of the service.
The successful candidate will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative and willing to take on a variety of duties while maintaining attention to detail.
You will ideally have knowledge or experience within plastic surgery and/or surgical runner skills.
Within this role, there are numerous learning opportunities. We offer a supportive working environment and are committed to the development of our staff.
Main duties of the job
Highlighted below are some of the nursing skills needed for a fast-paced working area such as Plastic Surgery Outpatients:
* The ability to work both independently and as part of the wider Multidisciplinary Team.
* Supporting and assisting your consultant colleagues in the smooth running of their clinics.
* Acting as a chaperone.
* Surgical scrub skills for supporting our outpatient minor surgical and emergency trauma lists. However, if you do not have these skills, we will support you in obtaining competencies to support this service.
As part of the Plastic Surgery nursing team, you will support our qualified staff in undertaking all aspects of outpatient care including clinics, simple wound dressings, and runner in minor operations. If you do not already possess circulating skills, additional training will be given to support you in this role.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Customer Service relations experience.
* Care Certificate.
* Numeracy and Literacy Level 2/GCSE Math and English Grade A-C.
* At least one year's secondary care experience in Outpatients and/or Theatres.
Desirable criteria
* Flexible to service demands.
* Evidence of additional training.
* Previous health care experience related to Burns and Plastics.
* NVQ in Health or Social Care Level 3.
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
* Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff.
* Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years.
* An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months).
* Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme.
* Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme.
* An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges.
* Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Uniform provided (where required).
* On-site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme.
* On-site health and fitness club.
* On-site car parking.
* Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have a DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills, and experience required.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Generic B3 SR JD (PDF, 231.4KB)
* Facts about Salisbury (PDF, 214.5KB)
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