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Main area Healthcare support worker Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent: previous applicants should not apply Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Monday – Sunday) Job ref 197-R-LC8594-A
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of theICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
NOTE: Theatre experience and a Care Certificate from an NHS Provider Organisation are essential requirements for this role. Please note that previous applicants need not reapply.
Only applicants with Theatre experience will be considered.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this post.
The perioperative Health Care Assistant is part of the multidisciplinary team supporting care to patients during the perioperative journey within the operating department. Support and supervision are provided by a Registered Professional.
The Perioperative Healthcare support worker (PHCSW) carries out a range of support tasks and duties to enable the team to provided and effective and efficient service within the acute hospital setting.
To achieve this the PHCSW will:
- Competently perform the necessary aspects of patient care.
- Ensure effective delivery of clinical care is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained.
- Follow Trust policies and provide safe and person-centred environment for the treatment of patients.
- Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care.
Main duties of the job
- Maintains a sterile field and establishes a safe surgical environment.
- Participates in the Five Steps for Safer Surgery including the WHO safe surgery checklist.
- Performs the role as the third competent Circulating Practitioner for a range of cases.
- Collection and preparation of specimens and accurate record keeping of the specimens.
- Assisting with patient positioning and use of patient positioning equipment in the theatre.
- Assist with the safe transfer of patients from anaesthetic trolley to bed.
- Safe collection of the patient from the ward to theatre.
- Communicate/liaises with members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure high standards of patient care.
- Demonstrates care and compassion to patients’ carers and relatives to help ensure high-quality person-centred patient care is always delivered.
- Provide support to the Registered Professional and where appropriate, other members of the clinical team as required.
- To co-operate and maintain good relationships with the team colleagues and staff in other disciplines that are attending theatres and delivering patient care.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The perioperative Health Care Assistant is part of the multidisciplinary team supporting care to patients during the perioperative journey within the operating department. Support and supervision are provided by a Registered Professional.
The Perioperative Healthcare support worker (PHCSW) carries out a range of support tasks and duties to enable the team to provided and effective and efficient service within the acute hospital setting.
To achieve this the PHCSW will:
- Competently perform the necessary aspects of patient care.
- Ensure effective delivery of clinical care is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained.
- Follow Trust policies and provide safe and person-centred environment for the treatment of patients.
- Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care.
Role of the department
The purpose of the department is to provide a high quality safe and supportive environment for all patients undergoing surgical procedures in the theatres.
Person specification
Certification
- Must have NHS Care Certificate
- Must be able to Maintains a sterile field and establishes a safe surgical environment.
- Health and Social Care Level 3
Experience
- Experience in Operating Theatre
- Evidence of work in a fast paced manual role
Good command of English
- Good communication in a high risk environment
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.
Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.
Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.
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