Healthcare Assistant (HCA) - Essex

Location: Buckhurst Hill, Essex

Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37.5 h/w

Salary: £competitive

We are seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join our Essex centre.

Day-to-day you will prepare clinical areas for each list and ensure they are kept tidy throughout the day as well as eventually progressing to providing our clients with abdominal ultrasound scans and consultations (training will be provided). There are many opportunities for the right individual who is motivated and wished to take on additional responsibilities. We offer a varied range of clinical courses and e-learning programmes to enable you to play a vital role alongside our trained nurses and doctors in the care of women and young adults seeking help and support.

In order to be successful in the role you will:

• Have completed your Level 3 NVQ (highly desirable)
• Currently be working as a Healthcare Assistant either within the NHS or privately (essential)
• Be pro-choice on abortion
• IT literate - word, excel and experience of learning an in-house system is advantageous
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be an active problem solver
• Have an organised mindset and empathetic yet resillient nature
• Flexible and willing to travel to other centres in the region when required.

In return for your efforts we offer a competitive salary and benefits package as well as commitment to your ongoing personal and professional development.

About Marie Stopes International

Marie Stopes International delivers quality family planning and reproductive healthcare to millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women. We want to make sure that women everywhere have a choice when it comes to having children. We have been delivering family planning and sexual healthcare for over thirty years. Because we employ and train local people, we are able to work in some really remote and difficult places, like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone. Wherever we work, we make sure the millions of women we see every year get the same high quality services.

Marie Stopes International provides high quality family planning and sexual healthcare to ordinary women in more than 40 countries around the world. We use sound business principles and always work towards making our clinics self-sufficient once we've set them up. We work with governments and other aid agencies to provide training, shape policy and share expertise. For us, it's about making a national impact and transforming the lives of ordinary women around the world

 

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