Healthcare Assistant

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Job description

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Bart's Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Band 2 Healthcare Assistant

We are friendly
We are welcoming
We are a community
Join the St Bartholomew's family and be a part of an amazing team

St Bartholomew's Hospital is part of the Bart's Health group of hospitals that serves an area that is rich in diversity, providing services to a broad and diverse multicultural community for people living in East London and beyond. It is an internationally renowned teaching Hospital which offers a full range of local and specialist services for the treatment of cancer , heart conditions, fertility problems and endocrinology conditions.

We do not offer A&E services. Admissions to the ward are either direct admissions using the emergency pathway, elective from home, in-patient transfers from our referring hospitals, or admissions from the out-patients department.

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Healthcare Assistants with excellent communication skills and the ability to work using your own initiative as well as working effectively within a team. Ideal applicants will understand the importance of patient centred care. We will provide you with excellent development opportunities and a team that lives and works by our values.

The state-of-the-art Bart's Heart Centre is located in King George V wing of the Hospital, we currently have vacancies in 4B Ward. This ward is a busy 20 bedded Cardiothoracic surgical ward specialising in preoperative and postoperative surgical patients. Patients are routinely admitted for scheduled cardiac surgery or transferred from other hospitals as we are a leading specialised cardiac centre.

Our commitment and regard for our patients are reflected in our vision and WeCare values which are at the heart of everything we do.

If you are committed and would like to develop your skills further please apply.

All healthcare assistants are required to pass a literacy and numeracy test prior to interview.

This post may close early due to the number of applications received so you are advised to apply promptly.

For further details / informal visits contact:

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We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

Our people strategy for 2 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.