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Healthcare Assistant POA

NUFFIELD HEALTH
25,935 per year
Tunbridge Wells - Kent
Full-time
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Nursing

Healthcare Assistant POA

Healthcare Assistant Pre Assessment

Tunbridge Wells Hospital | Nursing | Full time

Up to £25,935 per annum depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

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.

Our Pre Assessment ​team in our Tunbridge Wells Hospital currently have an opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant. Passionate about caring, you will relish this opportunity to join a forward-thinking Pre Assessment team with time to care. Putting patients first, we champion doing the right thing for our customers. With a wide variety of cases, you are sure to broaden your skills. Our specialities include Orthopaedics, Gynaecology, Neurosurgery, Plastics Surgery, ENT, Cardiology, GP Services and Physiotherapy.

As a Healthcare Assistant - Pre Assessment , you will:

  • Help to make sure the day to day operations of our various clinics run smoothly.

  • Assist nurses with preassessment of surgical patients, undertake preoptimisation screening

  • Assist with phelbotomy and observations

  • refer to relevant specialities, build relationships with theatres, anaesthetics and ward

  • Pre Assesment experience desirable but not essential.

  • Be patient focused and able to demonstrate excellent communication skills.

  • Be a real team player.

  • Have diligence and IT literacy.

  • Have a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage a wide range of activities and changing priorities.

  • Have a flexible approach. A passion for development and training are also essential.

  • Must have NVQ level 2 or 3 in Health & Social care.

Helping you feel good.

Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

The Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital are recognised for their friendly atmosphere, clinical expertise, and high standards of care.

Our purpose-built hospital has been established since 1968. With 40 en-suite bedrooms, a busy outpatients and pre-assessment departments. We also provide a diagnostic imaging service (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography and X-ray), pathology, paediatric unit, surgical recovery ward, cancer care unit, 3 state of the art operating theatres and physiotherapy services.

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

It starts with you.

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

Cycle to Work Scheme

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.