Health Care Assistant - Gynaecology

Job overview

Gynaecology within Salford Royal  Hospital has dynamic services of an early pregnancy unit along with gynaecology outpatients. We are looking to recruit Health Care Assistants working across all gynaecology services, providing clinical support to assist registered nurses in the assessment, planning and delivery of care to patients.  Shifts patterns are over 5 days. Gynaecology provide and excellent opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge across a variety of our services as you are expected to work across all areas under direct supervision from registered members of staff.

After appropriate training you will undertake providing a varied specialised care.

Changes to the UK immigration policy introduced on the 9th April 2025, increased the minimum salary threshold for certificates of sponsorship applications for Health and Care Worker Visa from £23,200 (£11.90 per hour) to £25,000 (£12.82 per hour). For further information on the Health and Care Worker visa, please visit the Home Office website.

As per Agenda for Change, if you are new to the NHS your starting salary would be £24,937 (minimum Band 3 salary point from 1st April 2025 in line with National Living Wage requirements). This salary point is below the new minimum threshold, and therefore not eligible for sponsorship. For further information please check the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on the NHS Employers website.

Main duties of the job

• Establish and maintain communication with people about routine and daily activities overcoming any differences in communication between the people involved.
• Develop own skills and knowledge and provide information to others to help their development.
• Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others in own work area.
• Assist in maintaining and developing services.
• Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
• Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and rights.
• Assist in assessing people’s health and wellbeing and related needs.
• Assist in planning, delivering and evaluating programmes to meet people’s health and wellbeing needs.
• Assist in the application of technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment.
• Undertake delegated responsibilities from registered staff as appropriate.
• After appropriate training undertake clinical observations of care and accurately record findings and refer information on to the trained nurse.
• After appropriate training undertake venepuncture.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/