Health Care Assistant

Job Description Health Care Assistant – Outpatients Woodthorpe Hospital, Nottingham We are looking for caring, dedicated and motivated Health Care Assistants to join the Outpatients team at Woodthorpe Hospital in Nottingham. You will be assisting in the delivery of care to a variety of specialities including orthopaedics, urology, general surgery, bariatrics and gynaecology to name a few. You will need to have a flexible approach to your working hours to enable us to deliver high quality round-the-clock patient care. You will be part of a team providing the very best in patient-focused healthcare services.
You must have a caring approach, be a good communicator and be capable of delivering high standards of patient care. You will assist with essential hygiene and nutrition needs of patients and offer support and comfort. You will be trained to undertake additional clinical skills to support the nursing team such as performing clinical observations, catheter care and simple wound care. You will be responsible for assisting the Staff Nurse in the care of patients pre and post-operatively.
Qualifications and Experience

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  NVQ in Healthcare or working towards
• Experience of caring for others
• The ability to receive and communicate information accurately and take instruction from professional colleagues

Benefits:

• Access to the Ramsay Academy – genuine opportunities to grow, develop and specialise in your career
• Contributory pension scheme
• 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 Bank holidays plus the opportunity to buy/sell more
• Hourly rate enhancements for work in the evenings, weekends and bank holidays
• Private Healthcare and Life Assurance
• Free offsite parking and a subsidised staff restaurant
• Free uniform
• Access to our employee Discount Programme
• Wellbeing centre and access to 24/7 employee assistance line for free advice
• Free DBS checking
• Long service, Employee recognition and appreciation awards

About Us The Woodthorpe Hospital is a 42 bedded private hospital on 2 wards offering multi-speciality surgery for day cases and inpatients stay for both private and NHS patients. It is a very busy Hospital with patients seen by many different speciality consultants including Orthopaedics, spinal, gynaecology, urology, gastroenterology, dermatology and ENT. Ramsay Health Care UK is a well-established global hospital group with over 50 years’ experience. It is well respected within the healthcare industry and is one of the leading providers of independent hospital services in England. We love people with a positive, “can do” attitude who want to make a difference in their work. "Our employees are Ramsay." The skills and commitment of our employees forms the basis for our success. “The Ramsay Way” culture recognises that people – staff and doctors – are Ramsay Health Care’s most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success. All offers of employment in respect of this appointment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service. Committed to quality, equality and opportunity for all.
We care.
It’s more than what we do, it’s who we are. Everything we do is about striving to deliver the best care. And it's a belief that's as true today as it was when we welcomed our first patients in 1964.
“The Ramsay Way” culture recognises that people – staff and doctors – are Ramsay Health Care’s most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success. We encourage all Ramsay employees to participate in public health vaccination programmes including flu and Covid 19. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. This position is subject to background and DBS checks.