Healthcare Assistant

Job Introduction
Are you a thoughtful and dedicated Healthcare Assistant / Support Worker based in the Dartford/Gravesend area? Are you looking to join an NHS Health and Social Care partner which is striving to make positive changes?

As a Healthcare Assistant you’ll join a team who are focused on exceeding the needs of patients within our inpatient wards, based at either Livingstone Community Hospital Dartford or Sapphire Unit based at Gravesham Community Gravesend_._

Main Responsibilities
As a Healthcare Assistant with previous experience working in a community service or hospital setting, you will provide an impeccably high standard of care to local service users and will support with:

- Assisting individual patients with elements of basic nursing care and the implementation of nursing care programmes under the direction of a registered nurse
- Contribute to the on-going support of service users and their relatives
- Supporting Nurses with clerical duties and record keeping as required.

You will have experience as a Healthcare Assistant; and you will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

The work is varied and interesting. Striving to successfully provide healthcare can be both challenging and rewarding and our services are developing to meet the needs of the local population.

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As part of our commitment to your lifelong learning we offer the care certificate to all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.

The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours we expect of specific job roles in health and social care services.

Along with receiving the Care Certificate, you will also have access to exclusive reward and benefits including:

- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year