Health Care Assistant

Job description

Healthcare assistants’ working hours are, on average, 37.5 hours a week. This role often has shift work, meaning you may have to work night shifts, early morning shifts, evenings and weekends.

Your role might include:

• supporting people with social and physical activities
• booking and going with people to appointments
• helping with personal care such as support with showering and dressing
• supporting people with eating and drinking
• monitoring individuals’ conditions by taking their temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, and possibly helping with medication.
• monitoring patients and performing basic health checks
• making patients feel comfortable.
• serving meals and helping to feed patients.
• Work closely with other healthcare professionals such as nurses, physicians, and therapists in order to provide patients with exceptional care
• Dispose of waste and hazardous materials

Healthcare Support Workers Skills and Qualifications

• Superior communication skills
• Excellent bedside manners and etiquette
• Ability to analyse basic medical information and data
• Ability to successfully work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Willingness to maintain a professional demeanour at all times
• Prior experience in a hospital or clinical environment
• Knowledge of basic phlebotomy procedures
• Ability to work with other employees in order to achieve various goals
• Understanding of medical confidentiality laws and practices

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract

Locations: - Cheshire

Service: 30 service locations, including residential, respite, mental health care unit.

Cheshire location is a 65 bed service, supporting people at all levels of the Mental Health spectrum of need, focusing primarily on people with enduring mental health conditions that require a specialist and caring environment to meet their ever-changing needs.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Temp to perm, Zero hours contract, Volunteer
Contract length: 6 months
Part-time hours: 42 per week

Salary: £10.10-£10.45 per hour

Benefits:

• Company events
• Flexitime
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• No weekends
• Weekend availability
• Weekends only

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hereford, Herefordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location