Senior Healthcare Assistant (Multi-Specialty, Travelling)

The Medinet Group is a leading independent healthcare provider delivering high-quality clinical services across the UK and Ireland, comprising Medinet Clinical Services, Medinet Community, Medinet Minds and Medinet Ireland.

With over 20 years' experience, partnerships with more than 100 NHS Trusts and more than 2 million patients treated, we have built a strong reputation for clinical excellence and operational delivery.

Your Day in the Life of a Healthcare Assistant:

Working Hours: 40 hours per week (including travel time), shifts generally 07:00 to 18:00 / 5 out of 7 days, Monday to Sunday rota

Department: Clinical Operations: Medinet Clinical Services and Medinet Community

As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will join a small travelling team supporting our clinicians across a wide range of specialities. Most of your week will be spent in NHS outpatient departments supporting our insourcing lists.

When insourcing activity is lower, you will support Medinet Community clinics across the region.

This is a mobile role across the West Midlands. You will work in different hospitals, with different teams and different specialities, so you will need to be confident walking into a new environment and getting up to speed quickly.

Main Duties:

Clinical

· Prepare clinic rooms, equipment and stock before lists, and restore them afterwards

· Record patient observations (blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respiratory rate) and escalate concerns.

· Perform venepuncture and 12 lead ECGs, and label, package and send specimens correctly

· Carry out height, weight, BMI and urinalysis

· Chaperone patients and support clinicians during examinations and minor procedures

· Carry out dressings and simple wound care under delegation

· Support patients through their appointment with dignity, explaining what will happen and checking understanding

· Follow infection prevention and control standards at all times

Operational

· Work flexibly across specialities and sites, adapting quickly to each host trust's local policies and systems

· Keep accurate patient records on Medinet and host trust systems

· Help keep lists running to time, flagging delays or issues to the clinical lead

· Support patient flow, including check in and discharge, alongside admin colleagues

· Report incidents and near misses promptly

Professional

· Complete mandatory and specialty training and maintain an up to date competency record

· Represent Medinet professionally when working at NHS host sites

· Support the induction of new HCA colleagues

Person specification and requirements:

Essential

· Qualifications: Level 3 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare Support, NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent. Care Certificate

· Experience: at least 12 months as an HCA in an acute hospital or outpatient setting, across more than one speciality

· Clinical skills from day one: observations and NEWS2 escalation, chaperoning, specimen handling, infection prevention and control

· Skills: adapts quickly to new sites and teams, clear and calm communicator, confident using clinical IT systems, reliable and punctual

· Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle insured for business use

· Able to work weekends as part of a 7 day rota

· Enhanced DBS (adults and children), occupational health clearance and right to work in the UK

Desirable

· Phlebotomy or ECG certificate.

· Insourcing, bank or agency work across multiple sites

· Experience in theatres, ophthalmology, endoscopy, dermatology or MSK, or in community clinics

· Cannulation, wound care, point of care testing or visual acuity testing

· Experience supporting or inducting new colleagues

Why Join Us?

This role offers a breadth of clinical experience that few HCA roles can match, working across specialities and sites while helping to reduce NHS waiting lists.

· Salary: £30,285 per annum

· Quarterly bonus of 1.25% of annual salary

· Travel allowance: 55p per mile

· 25 days annual leave (plus 8 days bank holiday)

· Pension scheme

· NHS employee discounts

· Training and sign off in additional specialities, plus systems training at each host site

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Medinet Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other protected category under local law.