Band 3 Senior Health Care Assistant Medical and Surgical Outpatients

Job summary

Have you considered nursing in Outpatients as a Health Care Assistant? If yes, we have three vacant positions that may give you the opportunity to develop new skills and support your work/life balance.

Post 1 - 27 hours (3 shifts a week) with a shift pattern of 8:30am-6pm.

Post 2 - 18 hours (2 shifts a week) with a shift pattern of 8:00am - 5.30pm.

Post 3 - 34 hours per week (4 shifts a week with a shift pattern of 8.00/8.30-6pm)

The Main Outpatient Team would welcome applications from Health Care Assistants who enjoy working independently and working within a team in being instrumental in providing patient focused care. The roles are located in our main outpatient department as well as supporting consultant led activity in the Breast Care Unit.

The successful candidates 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 as well as willing to take on a variety of duties whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail.

We ask that candidates applying for this post have a current NHS Care Certificate and a Health and Social Care Qualification at Level 3 with current secondary care experience.

Whilst completing your application please detail which of the three posts you are interested in. We strongly suggest you arrange an informal visit to meet the team and gain a full understanding of the role.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept those who need sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

Highlighted below are some of the nursing skills needed for a fast-paced working area such as 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.
• Being able to undertake baseline measurements; BMI, blood pressures, blood sugar monitoring, ECG's, Urinalysis and after training spirometry, venepuncture and/or cannulation.

If you do not already possess all required skills, additional training will be given to support you in this role but this may initially be at a Band 2 until all Band 3 competencies have been achieved.

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