Healthcare Assistant

7 days ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Full time

Christchurch Women - s Hospital/Christchurch Hospital
- 0.5FTE (20 hours a week), Permanent role
- Monday to Friday

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.
**About the Role**

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to assist nursing and medical staff with patient care whilst maintaining a safe and clean work environment. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone wanting to work in Women - s Health and to help provide a service supporting women.

The role of a Healthcare Assistant varies from day to day. You will be there to make sure that the service is running smoothly and to its highest potential while assisting the nursing team with a variety of tasks on the ward which could include:

- Keeping the environment tidy and organised
- Ordering and restocking of supplies
- Communicating with and supporting patients
- Ensuring patient safety and that patients have the best experience possible
- Helping out the three Gynaecology Outpatients Services which have the same team/staff that also rotate around the units

You will enjoy being busy and don't mind that the role can be at times be physically demanding.

Hours and days to be discussed at interview stage.

**About the Service**

We have 3x departments in our Gynaecology Outpatients Service, Gynaecology Procedure Unit, Colposcopy and Hysteroscopy Unit and Gynaecology Outpatient Service. Our services provide care to over 10,000 women a year. We see patients referred from GP practices, other specialists and the National Cervical Screening Programme. We see patients for a range of reasons including pre/post gynaecology operations, fertility, urogynaecology, gynae oncology, pelvic pain, miscarriage management, difficult contraception insertions, terminations, biopsies, colposcopy and hysteroscopy.

**About you**

You will enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team, have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, a high level of confidentiality, and the ability to work well under pressure.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to engage well
- Effective problem solving and decision making skills
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a multidisciplinary team
- Initiative and a proactive approach to work
- Excellent interpersonal skills and team work
- Strong computer skills and administration experience would be an advantage
- Ideally experience as a Healthcare Assistant or similar

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