Health Care Assistant

1 week ago


Melksham, United Kingdom DYNASTY HEALTH CARE LTD Full time

You'll work under the guidance of a healthcare professional such as a nurse and your job will vary depending on where you're based. For example, in a hospital you may:

- wash and dress patients
- serve meals and help to feed patients
- help people to move around
- make beds
- make patients feel comfortable
- monitor patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight

Skills and personal characteristics needed

To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be
- caring and kind
- cheerful and friendly
- willing to be hands-on with patients
- willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
- able to follow instructions and procedures
- able to work in a team but use their own initiative

You'll also need
- communication skills, including listening
- organisation skills
- observational skills

Training and development

Your training as a healthcare assistant will include basic nursing skills and a Care Certificate, and the NCFE CACHE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare Support Services

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 40 per week

**Salary**: £11.00-£13.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Melksham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person


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