Health Care Assistant

NHS; Bolton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bolton is seeking an enthusiastic Health Care Assistant to provide high-quality care in gynaecology and early pregnancy. Candidates should have experience in health care, excellent communication skills, and a passion for helping women. This role allows for progression to band 3 after meeting specific competences. Flexible working patterns are available.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in health care.
• Ability to follow written procedures accurately.
• Evidence of self motivation and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of care to patients.
• Work well as part of a team.
• Post requirements of a band 2 health care assistant.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Basic computer literacy

Ability to work under pressure

Willingness to work towards the care certificate

Venepuncture

Education

GCSE English and Maths

Job description

We are seeking to recruit a positive, enthusiastic and compassionate Health Care Assistant to join our team of highly experienced and compassionate team of health professionals, who are experts at caring for people within the speciality of gynaecology and early pregnancy. We have a wide range of patients who have either come in as an emergency admission, admission through our dedicated Gynaecology/early pregnancy Assessment unit, accident and emergency, GP services and other health care providers. If you have a passion for Gynaecology/early pregnancy and would like to learn new skills within an area that is passionate about helping Women, then we would like to hear from you.

After one years experience in the speciality and meeting the relevant competences you will progress to band 3 AFC .

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who has experience in health care who has a genuine desire to work within the speciality of gynaecology and early pregnancy. You will be highly motivated, have excellent communication skills with a drive to give patients the highest standard of care.

As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

About us

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provide services across the north west side of the Greater Manchester area ranging from hospital services in Bolton to community services across Bolton, Salford, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 5,700 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don't need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare. The Trust offer a range of flexible working patterns to enable our staff to balance their work and personal life.

Our Trust is a great place to work and we are keen to ensure that all our employees have the right values in order that we can provide the best service to our patients. These values are very important to us, and as a potential candidate you should be made aware that we test for these throughout the whole assessment/recruitment and selection process, and will only interview and recruit individuals who demonstrate these values through their application and behaviour.

Details of our Values can be found on our website link http://www.boltonft.nhs.uk/about-us/trust-values/

Job responsibilities

Post requirements of a band 2 health care assistant with progression to a band 3 after one years experience and meeting competences. Please see job description and personal specification for further details to ensure you meet minimum criteria for this application.

Person Specification

Communication

• Excellent interpersonal skills

Knowledge

• Basic computer literacy
• GCSE English and Maths

Education/Skills

• Evidence of self motivation and to use initiative
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to work well with people of all levels
• Able to follow written procedures accurately
• Care certificate/Willingness to work towards the care certificate
• Venepuncture

Values and behaviours

• Caring and compassionate
• Working with integrity
• Work well as part of a team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.