Healthcare Assistant - OutpatientsNHS

Job summary

Candidates are advised to apply directly using the following link:

https://hje.kallidusrecruit.com/vacancyinformation.aspx?vguid=1402a4b8-618e-4a79-a223-2a4cba1c06e8

Please note, only applications received through the employer's website will be reviewed.

The Outpatient Department is often a patients first experience of the hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. We aim to deliver first class standards of care where the patient is at the heart of every decision.

Main duties of the job

We have a good team who strive to deliver our vision and values every day. The department has 25 consulting rooms with equipment specific to the various specialties we support and is in spacious, comfortable surroundings. We offer all staff the opportunity to support various specialty clinics and we have a minor procedure room where we undertake some further procedures under local anaesthetic.

The department offers both pre and post-operative appointments and a variety of other medical and general specialties.

Job description

• To maintain confidentiality surrounding patient treatment at all times.
• To ensure documentation is completed accurately and within agreed timescales using Hospital approved documentation, in line with Hospital guidelines.
• To have knowledge of and adhere to Hospital policy and professional standards. To ensure that team members do likewise.
• To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based care for patients.
• Ensure that each patient is assessed, and that their care is planned, implemented and evaluated, and that this is accurately documented.
• Participate in effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives and visitors.
• Ensure quality care is given, by being familiar with agreed standards of care and to inform seniors, if the required standard cannot be reached.

About us

Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.