Senior Healthcare Assistant (Multi-Specialty, Travelling)

Job summary

The Medinet Group is a leading independent healthcare provider delivering high-quality clinical services across the UK and Ireland, comprising Medinet Clinical Services, Medinet Community, Medinet Minds and Medinet Ireland.

With over 20 years' experience, partnerships with more than 100 NHS Trusts and more than 2 million patients treated, we have built a strong reputation for clinical excellence and operational delivery.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

Prepare clinic rooms, equipment and stock before lists, and restore them afterwards

Record patient observations (blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respiratory rate) and escalate concerns.

Perform venepuncture and 12 lead ECGs, and label, package and send specimens correctly

Carry out height, weight, BMI and urinalysis

Chaperone patients and support clinicians during examinations and minor procedures

Carry out dressings and simple wound care under delegation

Support patients through their appointment with dignity, explaining what will happen and checking understanding

Follow infection prevention and control standards at all times

Operational

Work flexibly across specialities and sites, adapting quickly to each host trust's local policies and systems

Keep accurate patient records on Medinet and host trust systems

Help keep lists running to time, flagging delays or issues to the clinical lead

Support patient flow, including check in and discharge, alongside admin colleagues

Report incidents and near misses promptly

Professional

Complete mandatory and specialty training and maintain an up to date competency record

Represent Medinet professionally when working at NHS host sites

Support the induction of new HCA colleagues

About us

This role offers a breadth of clinical experience that few HCA roles can match, working across specialities and sites while helping to reduce NHS waiting lists.

Salary: £30,285 per annum

Quarterly bonus of 1.25% of annual salary

Travel allowance: 55p per mile

25 days annual leave (plus 8 days bank holiday)

Pension scheme

NHS employee discounts

Training and sign off in additional specialities, plus systems training at each host site

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Medinet Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other protected category under local law.

Job responsibilities

Working Hours: 40 hours per week (including travel time), shifts generally 07:00 to 18:00 / 5 out of 7 days, Monday to Sunday rota

Department: Clinical Operations: Medinet Clinical Services and Medinet Community

As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will join a small travelling team supporting our clinicians across a wide range of specialities. Most of your week will be spent in NHS outpatient departments supporting our insourcing lists.

When insourcing activity is lower, you will support Medinet Community clinics across the region.

This is a mobile role across the West Midlands. You will work in different hospitals, with different teams and different specialities, so you will need to be confident walking into a new environment and getting up to speed quickly.

Person specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Ability to provide quality care
• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Person specification and requirements
• Essential
• Qualifications - Level 3 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support, NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent. Care Certificate
• Experience - at least 12 months as an HCA in an acute hospital or outpatient setting, across more than one speciality
• Clinical skills from day one: observations and NEWS2 escalation, chaperoning, specimen handling, infection prevention and control
• Skills - adapts quickly to new sites and teams, clear and calm communicator, confident using clinical IT systems, reliable and punctual
• Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle insured for business use
• Able to work weekends as part of a 7 day rota
• Enhanced DBS (adults and children), occupational health clearance and right to work in the UK

Desirable

• Desirable
• Phlebotomy or ECG certificate.
• Insourcing, bank or agency work across multiple sites
• Experience in theatres, ophthalmology, endoscopy, dermatology or MSK, or in community clinics
• Cannulation, wound care, point of care testing or visual acuity testing
• Experience supporting or inducting new colleagues

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a nursing team
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working in a GP practice