NHS
Outpatients Healthcare Assistant
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Job Description
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- What would you say are the primary responsibilities of a Healthcare Assistant working in an outpatients department?
- As a knowledgeable Healthcare Assistant, what extended healthcare skills would you say you have?
- Would you like the chance to play your role as part of a committed and focused team?
- What would you say are the primary responsibilities of a Healthcare Assistant working in an outpatients department?
- As a knowledgeable Healthcare Assistant, what extended healthcare skills would you say you have?
- Would you like the chance to play your role as part of a committed and focused team?
- What would you say are the primary responsibilities of a Healthcare Assistant working in an outpatients department?
- As a knowledgeable Healthcare Assistant, what extended healthcare skills would you say you have?
- Would you like the chance to play your role as part of a committed and focused team?
- Please see attached job spec
- Please see attached job spec
- Please see attached job spec
- Please see attached job spec
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Job summary
UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE
+ make a difference for every patient
Times have never been so busy! On average our Outpatients department in our unit based at the Royal South Hants hospital, Southampton are seeing and treating 1,500 patients per month and this number is set to grow even further!
Due to the ever-increasing number of treatments and care we are offering, our very active outpatients department has additional requirements for Healthcare Assistants to join and be part of our focused, friendly, professional and supportive Outpatients team.
The Healthcare Assistants will be hands-on, supporting Doctors, registered Nurses and other professional staff with the overall responsibility for all patients within the outpatient department.
These are permanent positions, working a 4-day week
shift patterns will be from Monday to Saturday
3 days from 08:00 to 18:00
1 day from 08:00 to 17:30
Main duties of the job
As our Healthcare Assistants you'll be ensuring that our patients receive a high standard of care by carrying out routine patient monitoring and care duties that will be relevant to each patient.
You'll be expected to have gained up to date knowledge of your patient, by investigating the patent pathway. Youll need to competently and accurately update patient records, ensuring the patient pathway is being followed and documented. This will be performed via our internal patient system.
You'll make sure your patients are prepared and ready for any treatments or surgery booked and ensure all necessary checks are conducted prior to a treatment or surgery taking place.
The appointed Healthcare Assistants will perform phlebotomy when required and work closely with the Lab Technicians, by providing required cross-referencing detail and background information relating to the patient and the blood sample taken.
There will be elements of administration tasks to be carried out, you may be called upon to collect all patient information together for admissions and discharging or for follow-up calls. You may be required to photocopy particulars and transport patient paperwork to other departments.
You will be conscious of health, safety and hygiene aspects in a department. Not only will you look to make sure the department is clean, you will monitor and look for potential hazards, ensuring they are made safe or the issue is quickly bright to the attention or the Department Manager.
About us
It is envisaged that the appointed Healthcare Assistant will have past working experience a hospital / clinical environment and might have already completed the NVQ level 1&2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
Youll have experience as a phlebotomist in the past, having taken blood samples from patients and worked closely with the laboratory to assess the samples taken. You will be familiar with conducting ECGs scans and working closely, directly with Doctors to support patient within your care.
Youll be computer literate, familiar with accurately updating records and databases with the ability to pick up new systems easily.
Youll be an effective communicator at all levels, both written and verbal you will be liaising with different departments internal and external, face to face, via email or over the phone, as well as family, friends or carers of your patients.
To apply for the role, click on the link below. If you have any questions contact Kerry.Mills@practiceplusgroup.com.
All shortlisted candidate will be contacted but please note, Practice Plus Group retain the right to remove the advert prior to the closing date if a suitable candidate is appointed.
Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.
At Practice Plus Group, we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities.
Details
Date posted
27 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£23,809.50 a year £23,809 per annum + benefits
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
11875
Job locations
Level C, Royal South Hants Hospital
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE
+ make a difference for every patient
Times have never been so busy! On average our Outpatients department in our unit based at the Royal South Hants hospital, Southampton are seeing and treating 1,500 patients per month and this number is set to grow even further!
Due to the ever-increasing number of treatments and care we are offering, our very active outpatients department has additional requirements for Healthcare Assistants to join and be part of our focused, friendly, professional and supportive Outpatients team.
The Healthcare Assistants will be hands-on, supporting Doctors, registered Nurses and other professional staff with the overall responsibility for all patients within the outpatient department.
These are permanent positions, working a 4-day week
shift patterns will be from Monday to Saturday
3 days from 08:00 to 18:00
1 day from 08:00 to 17:30
Job responsibilities
UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE
+ make a difference for every patient
Times have never been so busy! On average our Outpatients department in our unit based at the Royal South Hants hospital, Southampton are seeing and treating 1,500 patients per month and this number is set to grow even further!
Due to the ever-increasing number of treatments and care we are offering, our very active outpatients department has additional requirements for Healthcare Assistants to join and be part of our focused, friendly, professional and supportive Outpatients team.
The Healthcare Assistants will be hands-on, supporting Doctors, registered Nurses and other professional staff with the overall responsibility for all patients within the outpatient department.
These are permanent positions, working a 4-day week
shift patterns will be from Monday to Saturday
3 days from 08:00 to 18:00
1 day from 08:00 to 17:30
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Additional Criteria
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Additional Criteria
Essential
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Practice Plus Group
Address
Level C, Royal South Hants Hospital
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
Employer's website
https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Practice Plus Group
Address
Level C, Royal South Hants Hospital
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
Employer's website
https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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