Healthcare support worker

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join our dynamic team as a Nursing Assistant in the ENT/Plastics Outpatients Department, providing essential care to patients with various conditions. You will enhance your skills, support healthcare professionals, and participate in delivering high-quality services from Monday to Friday. This role features a commitment to compassionate patient care without unsocial hours, making it an ideal career choice in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• Energetic and committed individual with good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to assist in outpatient clinics and minor procedures.
• Willingness to learn phlebotomy and ECG procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support patients compassionately and assist registered nurses.
• Conduct patient observations and minor procedures.
• Ensure compliance with infection prevention protocols.

Skills

Compassionate care

Communication

Teamwork

Education

No specific degree required

Job description

A rewarding job with NO UNSOCIAL HOURS as a Nursing Assistant in the ENT/Plastics Outpatients Department. Our department provides care and treatment to patients with Ear, Nose, and Throat, and Plastics Surgery conditions, making it a very interesting, diverse, and rewarding area to work in.

As a nursing assistant in the ENT/Plastics Outpatient Department, you will have a great opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills. We are a dynamic team, and you will have the opportunity to develop in your role to assist the Doctors and Nurses running clinics from Monday to Friday. Patients come to us for different reasons, including initial consultations for diagnosis and treatment planning, pre-operative assessments to ensure fitness for surgery, and post-operative wound dressing changes.

We are looking for a confident, outgoing, and kind individual to join our team who has the energy and commitment to provide high-quality care and interacts well with patients and colleagues, helping the service run smoothly and ensuring positive patient experiences.

The department nursing assistants, once properly trained, support clinicians at our ENT peripheral clinics in Wantage, Brackley, and Chipping Norton. We will offer training and development in skills such as taking bloods, performing ECGs, and patient observations like blood pressure.

Your responsibilities will include supporting patients compassionately, assisting registered nurses in outpatient clinics, supporting multidisciplinary teams, supporting minor procedures, and undertaking patient observations. Additional training will be provided to undertake phlebotomy, ECG procedures, and tracheostomy awareness. You will also support pre-operative assessment clinics, decontamination procedures, and ensure infection prevention protocols are followed. Supporting patient dignity and comfort, managing stock items, and ensuring a clean environment are also part of the role.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of clinical services across four hospitals. Our values focus on delivering compassionate excellence through compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence, putting patients at the heart of everything we do.

We are committed to a safe and respectful hiring environment and have signed the NHS England sexual safety charter, pledging zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour.

If you want to make a difference, join our team to uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism. For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Tania Perestrelo
• Job Title: Sister
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]