Health Care Assistant (BANK STAFF) Sheffield, England
Job description
Health Care Assistant duties and responsibilities
A Health Care Assistant plays a crucial role in ensuring that patients are not only comfortable, but also have their personal needs met. They also keep the managing Nurse / Senior staff updated with the information about the conditions and mental states of the patients. Their daily duties and responsibilities can include:
- Helping the patient with exercises
- Turning a bedridden patient on a schedule
- Feeding the patients and helping them drink
- Cleaning patients teeth and assisting them during a shower and bath
- Making the patient’s bed, changing the bedding and providing them with toileting assistance
- Keeping patient records up to date and taking their medical histories and care plan information up to date, this includes body mapping and other observational tasks.
- Reporting all changes on the patients and other important observations to the Nurse / Senior Staff
- Monitoring patient vital signs and health
- Adhering to professional standards, following policies and procedures and aided by government regulatory requirements, as well as Nursing standards.
- Keeping up to date with mandatory training and cpd.
Job Types: Temporary contract, Temp to perm, Zero hours contract
Salary: £10.00-£15.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexitime
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekend availability
Supplemental pay types:
- Loyalty bonus
COVID-19 considerations:
common surfaces sanitised regularly, covid booster evidence required
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Sheffield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- do you have and up to date dbs dated within the last 12 m months or on the update service?
- do you have evidence of up to date training that may be required such as manual handling, safeguarding etc.
Experience:
- health care: 2 years (required)
- healthcare: 2 years (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Shift availability:
- Day shift (preferred)
- Night shift (preferred)
- Overnight shift (preferred)
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: RRoM Healthcare Bank
Expected start date: 30/03/2023
