Healthcare Assistant

Job overview

This is a great opportunity for an energetic, enthusiastic, friendly and reliable individual to work within our Neuro Surgical Theatres, here at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. We are a large regional neurosurgical unit providing 24/7 emergency care as well as an elective service.  Out of hours you will be expected to work as part of the emergency team with other specialities as well as neuro surgery. e.g. Max Fax, orthopaedics, plastics and general surgery.

• Interview Date Wednesday 09 April 2025
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

We recognize outstanding individual staff members and support them in their career and development in every way we can.

If you are a committed, flexible, team-player who insists on the best possible care then this could be the post for you

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents as attached to this advert.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To abide by Trust policies and procedures
• To assist the registered nurse/ODP (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care within the perioperative environment
• To undertake a range of delegated clinical duties
• Maintain patients’ privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies to maintain high quality safe care
• Post holder will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other theatre / department duties as required, e.g., general tidiness, re-determined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly
• Assist with admin & clerical duties as required

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.