Job Description

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are a vital part of the team that supports the medical staff and patients in wards and departments throughout the hospital.

Under the supervision and direction of qualified nursing staff, healthcare assistants carry out a wide range of duties to care for, support, and provide information to patients and their families.

We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic, motivated, and skilled Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly team, providing family centered care, which is progressive and forward thinking. We have multi-disciplinary clinics Monday-Friday, as well as Nurse Led Clinics.

Children's Outpatients is a very busy department. You will be expected to work as a member of the nursing team working under the supervision and guidance of a registered Children's Nurse to assist with the planned care of children and their families, and work closely with Paediatric Medical Records, Appointments and with our Medical and Nursing multi-disciplinary teams.

We will support you in continuing your professional development.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

Monitoring patients’ conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight.

Do health checks.

Re-stock consulting rooms.

Do health promotion or health education work.

HCAs also work with doctors, midwives and other healthcare professionals with a lot of patient contact.

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