Healthcare Assistant, Women's Health Unit

Job summary

An exciting job opportunity has arisen for a part time post up to 31 hours per week within the Gynaecology nursing team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

We are looking for a highly motivated Band 2 Heath Care Assistant who has an enthusiasm for womens health and is keen to be part of our dedicated nursing team on the Womens Health Unit. This unit carries out ambulatory gynaecology procedures such as hysteroscopy, colposcopy, and cystoscopy and gynaecology clinics.

You will work as part of the nursing team in order to assist the senior nurses in providing clinically excellent, compassionate care acting as the patients advocate and chaperone. You should have excellent communication skills to engage with patients and colleagues, promoting the Trusts values. You will have the opportunity to further develop your skills and knowledge withinGynaecology.

Gynaecologyservices at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust are offered across our three hospital sites; Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Kidderminster Treatment Centre and The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. We comprise of the Womens Health Unit, Emergency Gynaecology Assessment Unit and inpatient gynaecology and gynaecology sub-speciality services.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Kerry Styles (Ward Manager) on 01527512131 or via email: k.styles@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

To support professionally qualified staff in providing quality care for patients in roles, which are mainly related to direct patient care. This is a generic job description, which covers the range of duties that a healthcare assistant may be required to undertake.

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.