Health Care Assistant - Days & Nights

Role Overview & Responsibilities

You will be responsible for assisting nursing staff with clinical tasks, such as vital signs, personal care and maintaining a clean and safe ward environment. You will be required to be have strong communication skills and have excellent customer service skills.

Duties & Responsibilities

· Greet patients, visitors, consultants and staff in a professional and welcoming manner.

· Assist with patient care requirements under the supervision of a registered nurse. Assess patient’s condition through basic measurements.

· Maintain stock control and careful use of equipment

· Ensuring patient comfort, dignity and privacy are maintained at all times and are specific to the patients’ needs.

· Chaperoning patients and required equipment as necessary for appointments and clinic.

· Ensure strict confidentiality is applied to all clients and staff, ensuring need to know basis is applied at all times.

· Communicate care to patients, their family and/or carers using appropriate language and rationale

· Assists the registered nurse with appropriate clinical documentation

· Reports any concerns to the trained nurse in charge of the patient

· Decontamination of instruments and clinical equipment

Job Type: Zero hours contract
Contract length: 18 months

Salary: £10.75 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Supplemental pay types:

• Tips

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Cardiff: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

• How many months of UK Care experience do you have?

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)
• DBS (preferred)
• Basic Life Support and Moving & Handling Training? (preferred)

Work Location: In person