Healthcare Assistant
5 months ago
Are you seeking a rewarding career with exceptional career prospects and staff benefits? Have you considered healthcare?
It takes commitment, patience, and a caring attitude towards all people to be able to offer them the best service. We strive to have a positive impact on our patients’ lives.
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will demonstrate compassion and positivity while providing assistance to others. With exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, and proficient listening abilities, you will be ready to handle any challenging situation with utmost respect and tact.
Regardless of whether you are new to care or have some experience, we believe that everyone can learn and improve, and we want to help you reach your goals.
We currently offer full-time and part-time opportunities within the inpatient (Medical/Surgical), outpatient and Urgent and Emergency Care areas of Peterborough City Hospital. All of our areas have patients from mixed-gender backgrounds. Flexible working arrangements shall be considered where possible.
Our HCA mentors will guide you in identifying an area that is tailored to your skills and long-term aspirations.
The benefits offered include a comprehensive professional training programme, mentorship assistance with onboarding and guidance with daily tasks and responsibilities, a competitive remuneration package, wellbeing programmes, travel assistance, and many more.
- Please note interviews for this vacancy are conducted face to face*
All the roles are permanent and offered on a full-time and part-time basis. Flexible working opportunities would be considered where possible.
**Typical shift patterns are as follows**:
- Inpatient and Urgent and Emergency Care areas : 07:00 - 19:30 and 19:00 - 07:30 across all seven days of the week (including bank holidays).
- Outpatient areas : Monday - Friday between 08:00 - 18:00.
Your daily duties will be performed under the kindly guidance of our registered staff. The main duties will vary depending on the area you will be working in. Examples may include:
- Personal care, food, personal hygiene and overall reassurance, comfort, and safety
- Help patients with their mobility
- Learn about individuals' specific needs and provide help in the most appropriate manner
- Maintain a safe, clean, and enjoyable clinical environment to live and work in
- Communicate to patients and their families
- Manage stock levels for linen and other supplies
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Venepuncture and cannulation
- Wound care (including closing, cleaning, and dressing wounds as well as burns care)
- Application plaster casts and immobilisation devices
- Providing assistance with the transfer of patients to inpatient wards or diagnostic imaging.
When your tasks prove to be challenging, our Wellbeing team is there to support you as well as our in-house physiotherapy services.
We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.
Benefits to you
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
- NHS Pension Scheme:
- Flexible working opportunities;
- Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
- Career development and training;
- Wellbeing support and activities;
- In-house physiotherapy Service;
- On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
- Subsidised staff parking (currently free).
- Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
If you require more information, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.
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