About this role
Healthcare Assistant (Theatres)
Ipswich Hospital | Theatres | Permanent | Full Time | Includes weekend work
£24,043.50 per annum
37.5 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 Ipswich 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.
Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital
Set in over 19 acres of private woodland, Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital is a haven of tranquility and repose. Only private patients are treated at Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital, making us the only purely private hospital in East Anglia and the first within the Nuffield Health Hospitals group. We are currently registered with the Care Quality Commission for 60 beds, with areas of specialty in cataract, cosmetic, gynaecology, imaging & radiology, orthopaedics and urology & men's health Ipswich has a CQC (Care Quality Commission) rating of good.
At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive 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.
Apply today… It starts with you.
Other facts
About Nuffield Health
Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells hospital provides high quality private healthcare for the residents of Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding areas. As a not-for-profit hospital, we reinvest our profits into improving our facilities and services.
We work with industry-leading consultants to offer a wide range of services and treatments and have a special focus on orthopaedics, paediatric care, oncology, urology and cosmetic surgery.
Our highly trained staff, led by our resident matron, provide care on an individual basis to encourage a speedy recovery and wellbeing.
What you'll do
- As a Healthcare Assistant in theatre, you will assist with moving patients, theatre preparation, and provide family reassurance. You will play a key role in supporting the theatre team in a fast-paced environment.
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