Wider Healthcare Team
Skills required
As a member of the wider healthcare team you will form an essential part of the running of the NHS. Here are some of the skills required for the variety of roles in the wider healthcare team. As the roles within this area are so varied not all roles require all of these skills.
Skills required
- Organisational skills
- Remaining calm under pressure
- Taking pride in attention to detail
- Basic computing skills.
- Being attracted by the idea of using and developing your skills within the NHS
- Enjoying providing hospitality and looking after people’s comfort and well-being
- Having an aptitude for hospitality
- An awareness of hygiene and nutritional issues
- Liking practical, hands-on work – skilled and unskilled
- Being interested in problem solving and management
- Taking pride in improving the surroundings of patients, staff and visitors
- Having an awareness of safety issues and some technical or design flair
- Leadership skills
- Project-management skills
- Having confidence in dealing diplomatically with tricky situations
- Flexibility, reliability and good motoring skills are valuable
- Having an awareness of hygiene issues
- Enjoying working closely with people and providing practical hands-on support
- Having an interest in technology and the ability to pay close attention to detail
- Having an aptitude for science
