(**) Healthcare Assistant - Theatres

VerseOne Group; Basildon; Presencial; GBP 23.000 - 28.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Health Care Assistant to join the theatre team at Basildon. You will work under the supervision of the Registered Nurse/ODP to deliver safe, patient-focused care across Oral-Maxillofacial, ENT/Head & Neck, Robotics, Gynae-Obstetrics, and emergency surgeries.

The role involves supporting the nursing team, maintaining records, ensuring hygiene, and assisting with data collection for audits.

Qualificações

• Good literate and numeracy skills – educated to Secondary school level.
• GCSEs and/or equivalent experience.

Responsabilidades

• Support the Registered Nurse in the assessment of a patient.
• Follow a plan of care and report changes in the patient’s condition.
• Maintain documentation and records.
• Assist in stock control and supply management.
• Contribute to data collection for audits.
• Ensure adherence to hand hygiene and infection control protocols.
• Support cleanliness and escalation procedures for the clinical area.
• Be accountable for actions and omissions.
• Follow written guidelines for patient notes and records.
• Assist in defining, implementing and evaluating care standards.

Conhecimentos

Literacy & numeracy

Formação

GCSEs or equivalent

Descrição da vaga

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is one of the biggest trusts in the country, following the merger of Mid Essex, Basildon and Southend hospitals in April 2020.

Main area surgical Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Nights, days, on call,late shift,weekends,bank holidays) Job ref 390-NR-TAC-BA-7958

Site Basildon Town Basildon Salary £25,272 Per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 08/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

The Health Care Assistant will be under the direct supervision of the Registered Nurse/ODP and assist qualified staff in delivering a safe and effective patient focused care to all service users in theatre department. The post holder supports Oral-Maxillofacial, ENT/Head & Neck including Robotics, Gynae-Obstetrics and emergency surgeries.

Are you a motivated individual looking to make a difference? Join our amazing theatre team as a Healthcare Assistant and help us provide safe, high-quality, and compassionate care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

• To support the registered Nurse in the assessment of a patient
• Follows a plan of care, reports any changes in the patient’s condition
• Maintains appropriate documentation and records.
• To maintain stock levels as necessary
• To be involved in collection of data for audits
• Ensure 100% compliance with hand hygiene and high impact intervention protocols.
• Be responsible for ensuring the highest possible standards of cleanliness within the
• clinical area and ensure all staff are familiar with escalation procedures for additional cleaning.
• Be accountable by making sure you can answer for your actions or omissions.
• Follow guidelines or written documentation in maintaining patient’s notes and documents.
• To support the Registered Nurse in defining, implementing and evaluating care standards.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICA initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a 'one workforce' cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting HCA role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

Qualifications

• Good literate and numeracy skills – educated to Secondary school level
• GCSEs and/or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience of working in a demanding environment with changing priorities
• Experience working in a Theatre/Day surgery department

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.