Healthcare Assistant

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Band 2, Healthcare Assistant

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Site.

Healthcare assistants are a vital part of the team that supports the staff and patients in wards and departments throughout the hospital. Working under the direction of qualified nursing/midwifery staff, healthcare assistants carry out a wide range of duties to care for, support, and provide information to patients and their families and the role can be very varied depending upon the area in which the person is employed. They also carry out a range of housekeeping duties, as well as performing basic medical checks, such as taking a patient’s temperature, pulse and respiration rate.

We are looking for enthusiastic Band 2 Healthcare Assistants to join our team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

Are you a motivated individual who enjoys working as part of a team within a fast paced environment? Then apply to come and work with us and become a member of our valued staff.

You must have acute experience and have maths and English level 2.

Interview date Tuesday 31st August and Wednesday 1st September.

Please note that this advert is part of a mass campaign recruiting for Trust Wide Healthcare Assistant vacancies. Successful applicants will be required to work full time and on a flexible shift pattern, including: long shifts, early shift, late shift, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Áibhín Burke, Email: aibhin.burke@chelwest.nhs.uk Tel - 0208 321 6114

Additional Information

The Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees as well as maintaining a workforce that broadly reflects the local communities we serve. In accordance with the Equality Act, we welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability.

Important:

• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Once the advert has closed you application will be transferred to our 3rd party recruitment system (trac.systems).
• Please ensure you check your emails is correct on your application form as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• If you have not heard from us within three weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means that your application was not successful.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
• Employment at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month Probationary Period