Health Care Assistant

2 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Spire Healthcare Full time

**Healthcare Assistant | Surgical Wards | Competitive salary plus fantastic benefits | Reading | Full Time**

Spire Dunedin Hospital have an opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join our experienced surgical ward team on a full time, permanent basis. **This role forms an intrinsic part of our clinical team, working alongside our nursing staff in the surgical ward.**

**Job Purpose**:
To assist the qualified nursing staff, under their supervision, in providing a high quality, comprehensive nursing service to all patients and users, ensuring a high standard of a patient care is maintained in a clean and safe environment.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and well being.
- Assist in the delivery of care to meet individuals’ health and wellbeing needs
- Establish and maintain communication with people on routine care matters
- Contribute to own personal development.
- Assist in maintaining own and others’ health and safety and security.
- Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
- Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and rights
- Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
- To maintain standards of infection control within the hospital and own department and to assist patients to maintain their own infection control needs
- To ensure that Clinical Governance and risk management are embedded within daily practice.
- Provide and receive patient information, ensuring that all patient information is provided, received and recorded in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Spire Policies.
- To meet Spire values, whilst delivering care to patients and relatives
- To adhere to the relevant Codes of Conduct, Guidelines and Spire Policies, Procedures, Protocols and Standards at all times

**Who we're looking for**:

- Must have previous experience working as an **HCA in an hospital setting, surgical ward, or ward experience**:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential
- NVQ Level 3 is desirable
- Experience in the following: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations is essential
- UK right to work and based

**Hours**:Full-time 37.5 Hours per week. Rotation of shifts Days, Nights and Weekends.

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Benefits**

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance

**We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.**

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group that has been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 40 years. We have 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland.

**Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

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