Theatre Healthcare Assistant

As one of our Theatre Healthcare Assistants, you will be assisting members of the theatre department, setting up theatre’s ready for your patient’s treatment to take place.  The way you will set up a theatre will be depended on each individual patents case.

You will be expected to have gained up to date knowledge of your patient, by investigating the patent pathway, it will then be your responsibility of adding to and following that patents pathway, ensuring particulars such as; consent obtained before any treatment is carried out.

It will be a case that your patients will be anesthetized, so there will not be so much of that verbal interaction with the patents in your care. You will need to ensure that your patient is prepared and ready with all necessary checks conducted prior to a for a treatment taking place, during a procedure.  you’ll be ensuring that your patient receives a high standard of care by carrying out your routine monitoring.

You will need to competently an accurately update patient records, ensuring the patient pathway is being followed and documented.

As the Healthcare Assistant, you will be conscious of health, safety and hygiene aspects in a theatre.  Not only will you look to make sure the theatre is clean, you will monitor and look for potential hazards, ensuring they are made safe or the issue is quickly bright to the attention or the Ward Manger.