Healthcare Assistant Out of Hours

Job Introduction
Are you an experience Healthcare Assistant / Care Support Worker looking for a new challenge?
Come and join our out of hours team in Sheppey Community Hospital

We are a seven day service working between the hours of 8pm-8am who pride ourselves in ensuring the best and highest quality of care to all patients.
You will be welcomed into the small team of other healthcare professionals who you will assist and support in providing care to people in their own homes or within a clinic setting.

Typically you will be working **three nights** out of seven receiving enhanced rates for the unsociable hours achieving a great work-life balance.

Main Responsibilities
Within this role as a healthcare assistant / care support worker you will:

- Assist in providing nursing care as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister within patient’s homes.
- Deliver care in accordance with Organisation Policies, procedures and guidelines, according to competencies, as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister
- Undertake the technical aspects of nursing care e.g. Dressings, glucose monitoring etc. following a period of training and when deemed competent to do so.
- Maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic experienced healthcare worker to join our team. You must have a valid driving licence and access to a car to travel in the Swale community.
This is the perfect opportunity to put your **NVQ Level 2** to great use, providing the highest level of care to our patients at each stage of their healthcare journey.

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

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 a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at Sheppey Community Hospital

You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- A salary of £19,700 with our group pension
- Enhanced rates for the unsociable hours worked
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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