Bank Theatre Assistant
Employer not yet confirmed · Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Theatre Healthcare Assistant | Spire Shawfair Park Hospital - Edinburgh | Bank and perm positions available
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.