Health Care Assistant

7 days ago

Hamilton, New Zealand Braemar Hospital Full time

**About the job**:

- Casual position available;
- Supporting our high calibre, close knit theatre team who scrub in on unique and exciting surgical and medical procedures; and
- Competitive remuneration, comprehensive orientation and induction, and ongoing training and development.

***About Us**

Braemar Hospital is a prestigious private surgical hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, dedicated to supporting nearly 200 credentialed specialists, across nine operating theatres and two endoscopy suites, and providing a full range of surgical specialties and medical procedures.

Our hospital exists, quite simply, to make lives better. We know the right experience at Braemar Hospital can improve how patients and their whānau feel, and how they live, even when there’s a long journey to full recovery. To see patients, leave Braemar with a new lease on life makes our efforts worthwhile.

The service we deliver at Braemar Hospital, and the profit that generates, enables our owner, the Braemar Charitable Trust, to support our community to live better lives through funding surgeries, health-related academic scholarships, medical research, and other health-related initiatives across the Waikato.

Care and excellence are at our core. We are well-known for investing in highly sophisticated technology, equipment, and facilities to enable our highly skilled team to deliver quality, safe patient outcomes. We also invest heavily in developing a world-leading organisational culture to attract and retain the very best talent because we know the critical role our team play in surgical excellence.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a casual Health Care Assistant.

Working in the Operating Theatre Department reporting to the Theatre Charge Nurse the Healthcare Assistant is responsible for role is a critical member of the team, assisting with patient activities in the theatre environment under the supervision of our highly skilled Registered Nurses and Anaesthetic Technicians.

To be successful in this role you will:

- Have previous experience in a Health Care Assistant or similar role, where you are comfortable taking directions from others and contributing positively to the team culture;
- Ideally understand the operating theatre environment and demonstrate a willingness to work across a variety of tasks;
- Remain calm and collected in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment is something you will thrive on;
- Possess a can-do attitude, and a strong customer service ethos to ensure excellent customer service, to both patients and specialists;
- A NZQA Health Care Assistant Programme Certificate is desirable, but not essential;
- CPR/First Aid Certificate (or a willingness to participate in training to achieve certification); and
- A current full driver’s licence.

**Working for Us**

Choosing to work at Braemar Hospital means choosing to live the Braemar Way. Our ‘BCOMPassionate’ principles are our North Star, and we know when our people and culture line up behind the Braemar Way, we become unbeatable.

In addition to competitive remuneration, working at Braemar Hospital provides you with access to a number of great benefits, including:

- We provide morning and afternoon tea daily, and we have delicious seasonal fruit delivered three times a week across the hospital;
- We heavily subsidise restaurant-quality meals which you can order for lunch and dinner;
- We have an annual summer shutdown where we close the hospital and ensure our whole team have some down time;
- Once you hit five years’ service at Braemar, we increase your annual holidays accrual to five weeks per year;
- We provide 15 days’ sick leave entitlement from the day you start to ensure you have plenty of leave to cover illness and injury;
- We offer access to our retail and experience discount platforms so you can access great local discounts;
- We provide a parental leave top-up benefit if you’re heading off on parental leave;
- We offer limited free parking on site, a secure bike storage shed, electric vehicle chargers, and we are on a main public transport bus route;
- We provide a pretty special Wellness initiative each year, and we offer our team free access to chnnl - the wellbeing app to support personal wellbeing;
- You’ll have access to a Financial Advisor to help support with your personal finances, free of charge;
- We offer Vitae support which includes confidential, professional support anytime you need it;
- We have a Talent Referral Bonus, and we recognise Long Service;
- We offer considerable space options for you to take a break - we have beautiful outdoor gardens and patio areas, our tea rooms are well-equipped, and we offer quiet spaces for prayer or reflection, or just to have some time out;
- We also provide professional development, internal development opportunities, and professional celebrations throughout the year.

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