Healthcare Assistant - Outpatients

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.

• 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.

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

Desirable: - Excellent clinical skills; - Excellent communicator; - Professional commitment and self-awareness; - Motivate self and others; - Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team; - Good organisational and time management skills; - Good interpersonal skills