Healthcare Assistant- Outpatients

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 2 Healthcare Assistant to join the Outpatients nursing team at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.

The post is either part time or full time, up to 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an individual who is eager to learn, has a kind and caring attitude towards patients, families and colleagues and who will be a positive team member. The role will involve working to run clinics alongside the doctors, assisting with procedures, giving medications, applying dressings, ensuring documentation is completed, and performing observations on selected patient groups.

The Main Outpatients departmentoffers a friendly, supportive, innovative and progressive environment where you will be encouraged to develop your advanced clinical skills and competencies.

The successful candidate will be supported by experienced senior staff and will have the opportunity to develop both clinically and professionally, with further training in house to develop your skills and knowledge around our multiple and varied outpatient clinics.

About us

Yeovil Hospital is an ambitious and friendly Trust that is proud to provide acute care for a population of more than 225,000 people in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip. The hospital has 345 beds, a busy Emergency Department, a variety of outpatient and diagnostics services, and a private patients' wing which offers a personal service in state-of-the-art clinical facilities, with all profits being invested back into NHS healthcare.

Yeovil Hospital's iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family. The Trust's shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing for the third year running in the annual NHS staff survey 2020.