Healthcare Assistant - Theatre (Bank)

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday in line with the Working Time

Pension Scheme

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join our theatre team on a bank/ad hoc basis. This role includes weekend work and requires compassionate care, effective communication, and a flexible approach to shifts.

You will support moving patients, theatre prep, family reassurance and light administration while collaborating with the theatre team in a fast-paced private hospital.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care is required.
• Experience in an acute hospital or care setting is required.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced theatre environment.

Responsibilities

• Move patients safely and assist the theatre team.
• Assist with theatre preparation and equipment setup.
• Provide family reassurance and basic administration tasks.
• Support flexible staffing to cover ad hoc hours.

Skills

Empathy

Great communication skills

Flexibility

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care

Job description

Healthcare Assistant - Theatre Glasgow Hospital | Theatre | Bank - Ad hoc | Includes weekend work £13.10 per hour

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.

Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, we’re committed to building a healthier nation.

Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you.

As a Healthcare Assistant in theatre at our hospital, you’ll be highly motivated and enjoy working somewhere that’s constantly and rapidly changing.

You’ll show real empathy and find the challenges of theatre work fascinating. As well as great communication skills, you’ll bring a flexible approach to both your duties and hours.

You will be qualified with an NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care, and have relevant experience in an acute hospital or care setting, As a Healthcare Assistant in theatre, you will:

• Create a great experience for patients undergoing major and minor surgeries
• Have the time you need to care for patients as people
• Understand people’s individual needs
• Play a key role in a fast-paced environment, supporting the theatre team where you will assist with moving patients, theatre preparation, family reassurance, administration tasks
• Work flexibly to support our team

Helping you feel good

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued.

That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind.

• From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive
• access to our Pension Scheme
• discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital Located in the heart of the West End of Glasgow; you will be working at one of Scotland’s leading private hospitals.

This year, we embarked on phase three of our multi-million pound refurbishment, adding state of the art equipment like our Mako robotic arm for orthopaedic surgery and a new ambulatory theatre.

We have a special focus in the areas of orthopaedics, spinal surgery, ophthalmology, weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatment.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity.

For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit.

We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services.

As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services.

Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.