Are you an experienced Healthcare Assistant (HCA) looking for flexible working hours? We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to come and join our bank team based within our paediatric primary care streaming service located at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Salary: £26,182.00 pro rata
Location: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Contract: Full or Part time permanent & Bank positions
Shifts: Monday-Friday 08:45-15:00 & 15:00-21:15, Weekends 15:00 - 21:15
What will I be doing?
- You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the Same Day Urgent Care Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and have responsibility for meeting and greeting children and younger people with their parents/carers, undertaking observations and supporting the wider clinical team to ensure smooth running of the service. Key duties also include:
- Ensuring all clinical rooms are set up before the start of each shift, including checking all medical and IT equipment is in place and working.
- Working as part of an MDT including GPs and Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) to ensure smooth running of the service
- Greeting and checking in patients on the clinical system upon arrival to the Same Day Urgent Care Unit.
- Conducting clinical observations on patients as required.
- Escalating to a senior Clinician immediately if there is any concern about the patient’s clinical condition.
- You may also be required to undertake urinalysis and other specimens as requested by the clinical team and repeat patient observations as required.
What do I need?
- Experience of working in a healthcare environment such as an emergency department, walk-in centre or other primary care settings.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal when dealing with patients/parents/carers
- Strong record keeping skills
- Experience of working with Paediatrics would be advantageous but not essential
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and self-motivation and a high commitment to quality and personal development.
- Experience of working to policies and procedures.
- Administration skills
About us –
Primary Care 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 1990, delivering NHS contracts exclusively. The majority of our surplus is reinvested in patients and staff. We believe that primary healthcare should be accessible for everyone and are committed to delivering the best quality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, where and when we can, to support our communities. We combine the best of the NHS with social enterprise innovation, developing solutions for NHS primary care and caring for our clinicians so that they can, in turn, care for our patients.
What’s on offer?
- £26,182.00 per annum, pro rata,
- £13.77 per hour for bank positions
- Contract type & hours Bank & Salaried
- 27 days annual leave (pro rata) – previous NHS service will be taken into account.
- NHS pension scheme
- NHS car fleet scheme
- NHS home electronics scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eligible to apply for blue light card
- Colleague wellbeing package - which includes a doctor line, access to Westfield rewards, wellbeing support and gym discounts.
- Colleague events
Come join our proud team!
This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore, it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
