Health Care Assistant (BANK STAFF)

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Health Care Assistant duties and responsibilities

A Health Care Assistant plays a crucial role in ensuring that patients are not only comfortable, but also have their personal needs met. They also keep the managing Nurse / Senior staff updated with the information about the conditions and mental states of the patients. Their daily duties and responsibilities can include:

• Helping the patient with exercises
• Turning a bedridden patient on a schedule
• Feeding the patients and helping them drink
• Cleaning patients teeth and assisting them during a shower and bath
• Making the patient’s bed, changing the bedding and providing them with toileting assistance
• Keeping patient records up to date and taking their medical histories and care plan information up to date, this includes body mapping and other observational tasks.
• Reporting all changes on the patients and other important observations to the Nurse / Senior Staff
• Monitoring patient vital signs and health
• Adhering to professional standards, following policies and procedures and aided by government regulatory requirements, as well as Nursing standards.
• Keeping up to date with mandatory training and cpd.

Job Types: Temporary contract, Temp to perm, Zero hours contract

Salary: £10.00-£15.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexitime

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Loyalty bonus

COVID-19 considerations:
common surfaces sanitised regularly, covid booster evidence required

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sheffield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• do you have and up to date dbs dated within the last 12 m months or on the update service?
• do you have evidence of up to date training that may be required such as manual handling, safeguarding etc.

Experience:

• health care: 2 years (required)
• healthcare: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Shift availability:

• Day shift (preferred)
• Night shift (preferred)
• Overnight shift (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: RRoM Healthcare Bank
Expected start date: 30/03/2023