Healthcare Assistant - Theatre

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 24,000 - GBP 28,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity in the UK is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join their theatre team at a hospital in Glasgow. This part-time role involves providing comprehensive support to patients undergoing surgeries, ensuring their comfort and care in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates should possess NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care and have relevant experience. Benefits include gym memberships, health assessments, and a range of lifestyle rewards.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Experience in an acute hospital or care setting is required.
• Must be highly motivated and enjoy a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to support the theatre team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create a great experience for patients undergoing surgeries.
• Support the theatre team with moving patients and preparing theatres.
• Understand and cater to individual patient needs.

Skills

Empathy

Great communication skills

Flexible approach

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care

Job description

Healthcare Assistant (Theatres)

Glasgow Hospital | Theatre | Permanent | Part Time | Includes weekend work

£24,043.50 pro rata

23 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.

As a Healthcare Assistant in theatre at our hospital, you’ll be highly motivated and enjoy working somewhere that’s constantly and rapidly changing. You’ll show real empathy and find the challenges of theatre work fascinating.As well as great communication skills, you’ll bring a flexible approach to both your duties and hours. You will be qualified with an NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care, and have relevant experience in an acute hospital or care setting,

As a Healthcare Assistant in theatre, you will:

• Create a great experience for patients undergoing major and minor surgeries

• Have the time you need to care for patients as people

• Understand people’s individual needs

• Play a key role in a fast-paced environment, supporting the theatre team where you will assist with moving patients, theatre preparation, family reassurance, administration tasks

• Work flexibly to support our team

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital

Located in the heart of the West End of Glasgow; you will be working at one of Scotland’s leading private hospitals. This year, we embarked on phase three of our multi-million pound refurbishment, adding state of the art equipment like our Mako robotic arm for orthopaedic surgery and a new ambulatory theatre. We have a special focus in the areas of orthopaedics, spinal surgery, ophthalmology, weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatment.

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

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as wereceive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.