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Healthcare Assistant - Dermatology (Band 3) | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6452626/200-5944265-MA-SC-A |
Summary
The Dermatology Department consists of specialty clinics providing diagnostic and therapeutic treatments, including a phototherapy service, day care topical treatments, dermatology minor surgery, phototherapy, Iontophoresis, photodynamic therapy (PDT), complex wound management, cryotherapy, skin camouflage (as per service needs). Our Dermatology service provides services across three sites, St Georges, Queen Mary’s hospital and the Nelson community hospital.
The CNS nurses working in Dermatology provide a variety of nurse led clinics and therefore all nursing staff are given the opportunity to acquire new skills and develop their expertise within this specialty. The Dermatology Unit at St Georges provides a Monday – Friday service with additional clinics held on a Wednesday evening and Saturday.
• The post holder is responsible for assisting in all areas within Dermatology including Phototherapy, Minor Surgery, dermatology day care treatments including patch testing and Iontophoresis.
• Will be trained to deliver Iontophoresis and assisting in Patch test clinic under the supervision of a registered nurse
• To deliver topical treatments to patients attending day care unit under the supervision of registered nurse
• To assist clinicians in Minor Surgery acting as scrub or assisting nurse. Will be prepared to undergone training for this.
• To will be willing to be trained in skin camouflage clinic (according to service needs)
• Fully achieve and maintain competencies within the competency framework for this post
Additional information in Job Description
The dermatology unit provides a range of day care treatments, including phototherapy, photodynamic therapy, iontophoresis and topical treatments to patients with acute and chronic skin disease including skin cancer. This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to develop expertise within this specialty including assisting in clinic and minor surgery. You will be joining a small team of nurses and Doctors who aim to provide quality care to all patients attending the unit and we aim to develop and support all our staff to achieve this. This post will mainly be at the St. George’s Hospital site, however, you may be required to go to the other sites if required according to service needs.
See details in main duties please and Job description.
No experience within a dermatology setting is required, however; Dermatology Outpatient experience would be an advantage. Consideration will be given to the candidate who demonstrates a keen interest in this area of practice and in addition has a proven track record of being reliable, conscientious and motivated.
The successful candidate will undergo a period of training to obtain competencies in Dermatology skills to meet their role fully.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Jul 2024
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