Job Description

Due to the increase in treatments and care we give to our patients, we have a new permanent opportunity for a Patient Admissions - Healthcare Assistant to join our Theatre team based our unit based at the Royal South Hants hospital, Southampton.

• Are you a Healthcare Assistant with strong administration skills who can effectively ensure a patient's pathway?
• How often in your healthcare experience have you performed case management responsibilities on behalf a patient?
• Are you able to manage effectively in a fast-paced environment, yet still ensure every step of every administration process is covered from start to finish?

The Patient Admissions - Healthcare Assistant is fundamental in supporting the patient pathway and enhancing the patients clinical experience, by performing effective pre-operative case management, co-ordination and administration tasks leading up to and including the day of surgery.
This is a permanent position, working 4-day week
shift patterns will be from Monday to Saturday
3 days from 07:00 to 17:00
1 day from 07:00 to 16:30
What you'll be doing
Reporting to the Theatre Manager, you as the Patient Admissions - Healthcare Assistant will need to carry out calls to patients 72 hours before they are due for surgery. You'll be ensuring they are ready and prepared and confirming due times for arrival to the hospital.
From the offset you will play a very involved supportive role with the patient, ensuring of their fitness ready for surgery through effective questioning, any doubts must be raised to the Theatre Manager for review.
Focused administration and co-ordination will be key in this position, you'll be preparing clinical files 72 - 48 hours in advance to prevent delay's, admitting patients and providing them with pre-operation prep on the day of surgery.
You'll be collating pathology and radiology reports, ensuring all notes are maintained to set standards and checking medical files noting if patient pre-assessments and related scans are present.
A main focus of this position would be to very effectively ensure the patient is prepared for their surgery and all arrangements for that patient are well in place. You'll be in regular communication with Theatre staff, Consultants, Nurses and other administration staff, and will look to keep the patient updated and well informed.
What we'll look for in you
This Patient Admissions - Healthcare Assistant position would be ideal for those who have performed the same similar role in the past; managing and ensuring a patient's pathway, appointments and smooth clinical operation.
You'll be welcoming, informative and accommodating, adaptable as sometimes you might be having to support a potentially worried and uneasy patient at times.
You will be an effective communicator at all levels both written and verbal with strong IT skills, able to pick up new systems easily.
You will be an experienced administrator with a strong customer focus appreciation, used to working effectivity in a fast passed, busy environment, yet managing that effective communication style.
You will be competent working with personal information and sensitive data and very familiar working within GDPR regulations.
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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. Our employment offers are subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks. At Practice Plus Group, we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities.
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.
Location
Practice Plus Group Hospital Southampton
Position
HCAs
Advertising Salary
23,809 per annum + Benefits
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Schedule Type
Full Time
Rewards & Benefits
Flexible working
Physical and mental health support
Refer a friend scheme
Free access to Reward Gateway discount scheme
Blue Light Card, Boundless card and Costco membership eligibility
Award winning ED&I programme
Access to private health insurance
Training & Development
Training delivered via our bespoke Learning Management System Practice Plus Group Skills Academy.
Great development and career progression opportunities.
Apprenticeship pathways to study:

• Healthcare Support Worker L2
• Senior Healthcare Support Worker
• Adult Nursing or Adult Mental Health L3

In my previous job I worked 9 to 5 and I was on the road all the time. On top of that I was on call every weekend and my time was not my own or my family's. The job as a Health Care Assistant (HCA) at HMP Hewell had a shift pattern of three long days a week, and those days change according to the rota. I worked one weekend in three, leaving me four days during the school week to be at home when my children came home. It was ideal in the holidays.