Healthcare Assistant - Wards
Summary
Provides patient care under nurse supervision in a hospital ward, including monitoring and reporting changes, with part-time hours and flexible shifts.
Bank Healthcare Assistant | Harpenden | Wards | 25 hours per week | Required to workdays/Nights/Weekends
Spire Harpenden Hospital has an exciting opportunity for Healthcare Assistant to join their ward department on a part time contract (25 hours per week). The successful applicant will work in a team that provides high quality evidence-based nursing care in a surgical settings to facilitate smooth and efficient patient pathways.
Duties and responsibilities:
- 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.
- Contributing to the support and monitoring of patients
- Identifying and reporting any significant changes that might affect the patient’s health and well-being to the appropriate person
Who we are looking for:
- Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a hospital environment
- Theatre/minor ops experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations (Desirable)
- Good team work ethic
- Enthusiastic and energetic professional
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 is desirable but not essential
Shifts – Long days & Nights You must be able to work any shifts Monday to Sunday
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 healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications