Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant to join our CQC rated 'Outstanding' Trust, within our Urgent Care Service.

Based at West Berkshire Community Hospital, you will be working in a passionate integrated team operating in partnership with the Practitioners in both the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU), Out of Hours GPs and other multidisciplinary teams within Berkshire Healthcare.

As a healthcare assistant, you will be working within both the MIU and Out of Hours Service booking patients in and carrying out basic triaging of patients, carrying out observations and treating wounds with the support of the practitioners.

Would suit applicants wanting to work part time hours with the opportunity of picking up extra hours. The applicant will be required to work 2 weekends a month in addition to some weekday working.

Our service is open 7 days a week 365 days a year from 08:00hrs until midnight.

Free parking is available on-site for our staff.

Main duties of the job

• Welcome patients to the Minor Injuries Unit in a courteous and helpful manner trying to allay fears and anxieties that they may have.

• Book patients onto the clinical database collecting all relevant information in timely and accurate manner

• Be able to demonstrate independent working while working in a constantly changing environment and without direct supervision but being able to ask the team for advice when required.

• Be able to act on own initiative manage own daily workload comprising of both routine and unpredictable/unplanned activities

• Triaging new referrals

• Undertaking appropriate clinical observations/vital signs

• Performing simple wound care/burns/eye washouts/venepuncture/ECGs/urinalysis/plastering

• Carry out administrative duties for the Urgent Care Service as directed

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.