Bank Theatre Assistant

Bank Theatre Healthcare Assistant | Spire Shawfair Park Hospital - Edinburgh | Bank

Spire Shawfair Park Hospital is looking to recruit a Healthcare Assistant to join their fantastic Theatre team on a bank basis. The hours will be on an ad hoc basis between 7.30am - 8pm and include early and late shifts.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing a range of support services to the Nurses and Consultants during procedures
• Assisting scrub nurses during procedures
• Provide patient support within the anaesthetics room 
• Opening sterile packs 
• Checking instruments 
• Assisting with ordering equipment
• Maintenance of quality care delivery
• Understanding and contributing towards infection control

Who we're looking for:

• Experience working in Theatres would be beneficial 
• We would be interested in candidates with experience in care
• Willing to learn and develop
• Passionate and motivated people
• Good level of communication and good written English 
• Happy to be trained and looking for career development 

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Smartspending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
• Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You'
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness or annual leave.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group that has been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 40 years. We have 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.