Position Overview & Specifications

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: