Healthcare Assistant- Departure Lounge

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Band 2 Health Care Assistants – Departure Lounge

If you are looking to work in a small but friendly and supportive environment, thrive on challenges, and want to make a difference in promoting excellent care, why not apply for our Healthcare Assistant Post. You will support our trained nurses on an acute cardiology ward.

You should possess good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team and to be able to work on your own initiative. A kind, caring, compassionate and professional attitude is essential along with being able to work in a busy environment.

All applicants will be expected to take a literacy and numeracy test. Successful applicants who pass this test will be interviewed on the day.

Applicants will be expected to work rotational shifts, covering weekdays, and weekends.

The successful candidates will need to look after people of all ages, be able to provide intimate care to both genders.

The role involves attending patients, record vital signs, check glucose levels, transporting patients from the ward to the department, and support our nursing team.

No previous experience or qualifications are required as we will provide support and training to assist you in developing your skills.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

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