Child & Young People Healthcare Assistant (bank)

Bank Child & Young People Healthcare Assistant 

Leicester Hospital | Nursing | Bank Ad Hoc | Includes weekend work |
Up to £15 per hour depending on experience

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. 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Care Assistant (HCA) Band 3 to work within the Nuffield Leicester Children’s and Young People’s Services. This is a bank position. Nuffield Leicester has 8 day-case surgical beds on the paediatric unit. We care for children and young people (CYP) with a wide variety of general surgical, orthopaedic and ENT conditions.

The role will involve working on the day-case unit, working alongside the registered nurses. There will also be opportunities to work within the Outpatient Departments.

As a Child & Young People Healthcare Assistant in Outpatients, you will: 

• Making and changing beds, general housekeeping duties

• Talking with children and parents to help them feel less lonely and anxious

• Distracting children during procedures such as blood collection

• Performing observations and early warning scores and escalating when necessary

• Documentation of patient care such as fluid balance and observations of temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and respirations

• Phlebotomy skills and competency for ECG tests, will also be an advantage

The main duties will be carried out under the direction of a professionally qualified practitioner and can include the tasks listed above.

You will need to demonstrate evidence of current/previous experience in working with CYP.  If you are highly motivated and want to make a difference in the lives of children and young people, can work well as part of a multidisciplinary team, can follow instructions, accept guidance and use your initiative, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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. From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month. 

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.   

Leicester Hospital

Founded in 1969, Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital was originally built from funds raised by the local community and is now one of the leading providers of private healthcare in Leicestershire. The Hospital has a strong local reputation with patients remaining loyal. The Hospital had a £4.5 million refurbishment in 2011 and was the blue print for the wider Hospitals refresh programme. The Hospital has 28 ensuite inpatient beds, 2 Laminar flow theatres, Endoscopy Suite, minor treatment room and 14 consulting rooms. The hospital delivers a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient treatments and services using the best possible technologies.

Since 2015 we have invested in a static MRI unit, a new digital X ray room & digital mammography. We are a local centre of excellence for Children and Young People Services. Having a Fitness & Wellbeing Gym in Leicester has led to a close working relationship and the Hospital was a forerunner for the Nuffield recovery plus programme. The Hospital has been rated as a ‘Good’ hospital by the CQC and achieved this rating across the 5 key lines of enquiry across all departments inspected

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It starts with you.