Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant**

Are you looking to expand your skills and enhance your career to include providing Dementia Care or do you already have Dementia Care experience?

Are you living in Norwich, Norfolk or close?

We are looking for dedicated and compassionate Healthcare Assistants who are passionate about their job, enjoy delivering one to one support and who can build positive relationships with our patients and their families.

Our service user is an elderly who requires a consistent and reliable team of carers to support them every day to live their best life by being for them voice, arms, legs and keeping them safe and well. We have available night and day positions.

**Overview**
- Salary - £10.90 per day hour or £11.00 per night hours
- Hours of Work - 48 hrs per day weekly and 36 hrs per night weekly.
- Shifts - 12 hrs per day
- Area - Norwich, Norfolk

**We are looking for someone who**:

- Has a passion for care & making a difference to other peoples' lives (essential)
- Is a good team player with good written & verbal communication skills
- Has previous care experience
- Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
- Ability to handle multiple tasks safely and efficiently
- Excellent customer service skills
- The ability to work well with their hands
- Capability to accept criticism
- Has Full UK driving license
- Access to his own vehicle

**Responsibilities of Community Healthcare Assistant**:

- Assist residents who need help with dressing, undressing, bathing and the toilet.
- Ensure Residents are treated with Privacy and Dignity and at all times.
- Help Residents with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence; help in the use and care of aids and personal equipment.
- Care for Residents temporarily sick and needing, for example, minor dressings etc., under the supervision of the senior staff.
- Keep up to date with Residents care needs by reading Care Plans, Risk Assessments and Daily Notes.
- Help in the promotion of mental and physical activity of Residents through talking to them, taking them out, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreations.
- Inspect, launder and mend Resident’s clothing. Make and change beds; tidy rooms and do light cleaning, empty commodes.
- Ensure that you maintain the Environmental Cleaning Schedule and checklist found in the Infection Control and Cleaning File.
- Set tables and trays; serve meals; feed Residents who need help; adhere to SALT recommendations; prepare light meals and wash up; tidy and clear the dining room.
- Answer emergency bells, the doorbell, and the telephone; greet visitors.
- Read and write reports; take part in staff and Residents' meetings, Shift Handovers and in training activities as directed.
- Contribute towards the development of activities and day-care programmes for Residents in which they can join in and which will enhance their quality of life.
- Assist under supervision, senior staff with the administration of medication.
- Read, understand, and adhere to all company policies
- Such other duties as may be required.

**Benefits include**:

- Paid annual leave 28 days per year (based on hours / pro rata).
- DBS costs paid for by the company.
- Paid Breaks.
- Full paid induction and training programme.
- *Free meals.
- Excellent on-going training from day one and throughout your career.
- Continuous training, mandatory and specialized.
- Progression with internal promotions available, across the group.
- Enhanced pay for working Christmas and Boxing Day & Bank Holidays.
- Pension scheme.
- Full uniform provided.
- Blue light Card.
- Refer a friend bonus scheme (£150 per placement).
- Employee Careline with our confidential telephone counselling, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Excellent career progression.