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You'll work under the guidance of a healthcare professional such as a nurse and your job will vary depending on where you're based. For example, in a hospital you may:

• Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and wellbeing.
• 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 including competency to undertake the role of HCA.
• Assist in maintaining own and others’ health and safety and security.
• Assist in maintaining and developing services.
• Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
• Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and right.
• Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
• Record patient equality and diversity in line with HS guidelines

Experience Required

• ECG
• Dressing change
• Plaster Paris
• Urine Testing

To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be

• caring and kind
• cheerful and friendly
• willing to be hands-on with patients
• willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
• able to follow instructions and procedures
• able to work in a team but use their own initiative

You'll also need

• communication skills, including listening
• organisation skills
• observational skills

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 40 per week

Salary: £20.00-£29.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Orpington: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• ECG: 1 year (required)
• Plaster Paris: 1 year (required)
• Urine Testing: 1 year (required)
• Dressing change: 1 year (required)
• Hospital: 1 year (required)
• NVQ 3: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person