Health Care Assistant

3 days ago

Hamilton, New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waikato Full time

**Health Care Assistant - Interventional Radiology**

**Job Number**:WAI28574**

**Where you’ll be working**: Waikato Hospital

**The details**:Permanent - 0.6 FTE (48 hours per fortnight)

**Salary details**: NZNO MECA + KiwiSaver’

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

We are seeking a Health Care Assistant to join the Interventional Radiology team here at Waikato Hospital.

As Interventional Radiology’s Health Care Assistant you will work under the supervision of Registered Nurses to provide support and assistance to patients and staff across the three IR theatres.

A key part of your role will be to use your time management and prioritisation skills to assist the team in maintaining theatre efficiency, ensuring our patients have a smooth transition in and out of theatre and keeping the department clean and well stocked.

**Key responsibilities of the role**:

- Assist IR theatre staff with the safe transfer of patients on and off the IR tables, this also includes pushing and remaking beds
- Aiding the quick turnover of the IR theatres
- Maintaining a clean and well stocked department
- Monthly expiry date checks of all consumables and removal of expired stock

**Click here** to view the position description.**
- (Please note position descriptions can only be viewed on the Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora - Waikato website.)_

**Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service**

The multi-disciplinary Interventional Radiology team is supportive, dynamic and flexible, working collaboratively to provide quality care to patients within our region. IR caters to all specialties and performs a wide range of mínimally invasive procedures, which rely on the use of radiological image guidance (x-ray, fluoroscopy, ultrasound and CT). In the majority of procedures, patients are awake or lightly sedated.

**Mōu | About you**
- Excellent verbal communication and time-management skills,
- Strong patient focus,
- Be physically fit as the role involves physical manual handling,
- Be dedicated to being an important part of our health care team,
- The ability to problem solve and troubleshoot,
- Be responsive to urgency and the ability to prioritise,
- Preferably, you will have had previous experience in a healthcare setting within New Zealand as a Health Care Assistant.

**Working for Health New Zealand**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

**_ Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion _**

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