Job summary
The Outpatient Department is often a patients first experience of the hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. We aim to deliver first class standards of care where the patient is at the heart of every decision. We have a good team who strive to deliver our vision and values every day. The department has 25 consulting rooms with equipment specific to the various specialties we support and is in spacious, comfortable surroundings. We offer all staff the opportunity to support various specialty clinics and we have a minor procedure room where we undertake some further procedures under local anaesthetic.
Main duties of the job
The department offers both pre and post-operative appointments and a variety of other medical and general specialties. Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.
About us
Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our luxury private Hospital has an international reputation for providing the highest quality of care to patients and is unique in that all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To maintain confidentiality surrounding patient treatment at all times.
- To ensure documentation is completed accurately and within agreed timescales using Hospital approved documentation, in line with Hospital guidelines.
- To have knowledge of and adhere to Hospital policy and professional standards. To ensure that team members do likewise.
- To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based care for patients.
- Ensure that each patient is assessed, and that their care is planned, implemented and evaluated, and that this is accurately documented.
- Participate in effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives and visitors.
- Ensure quality care is given, by being familiar with agreed standards of care and to inform seniors, if the required standard cannot be reached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To maintain confidentiality surrounding patient treatment at all times.
- To ensure documentation is completed accurately and within agreed timescales using Hospital approved documentation, in line with Hospital guidelines.
- To have knowledge of and adhere to Hospital policy and professional standards. To ensure that team members do likewise.
- To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based care for patients.
- Ensure that each patient is assessed, and that their care is planned, implemented and evaluated, and that this is accurately documented.
- Participate in effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives and visitors.
- Ensure quality care is given, by being familiar with agreed standards of care and to inform seniors, if the required standard cannot be reached.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience within a care setting.
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 2 in Health Care
Desirable
- NVQ Level 3 in Health Care
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Able to work without direct supervision within the bounds of the Health Care Assistant role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience within a care setting.
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 2 in Health Care
Desirable
- NVQ Level 3 in Health Care
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Able to work without direct supervision within the bounds of the Health Care Assistant role.
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.
