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Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Salary: £25,500 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 1555084554
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About the Job:
As a Healthcare Assistant, youll be part of our valued community team based in Gravesend, North Kent, supporting patients to remain safe and independent within their own homes.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping, as well as cashback and voucher offers
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face-to-face support with your mental and physical wellbeing, from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, 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 youre encouraged to share and implement ideas that can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to delivering high clinical and quality standards
Main Responsibilities
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will:
- Support the delivery of individualised care and rehabilitation programmes to patients within their own homes
- Work alongside the Urgent Care Response and Intermediate Care Team to help patients recover, regain independence and remain safely within the community
- Carry out delegated nursing and therapy activities under the direction of qualified members of the team
- Support patients with activities that promote mobility, independence and rehabilitation
- Provide short-term personal care where required, including support with washing, dressing and other hygiene needs
- Support the safe and timely discharge of patients from hospital back into the community
- Observe patients and communicate any changes or concerns promptly to the appropriate clinician
- Encourage and motivate patients to participate in their agreed care and rehabilitation plans
- Support patients and their families with health promotion and maintaining independence
- Maintain accurate and timely patient records
- Work closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team to provide coordinated, person-centred care
- Provide appropriate administrative and clerical support to the team when required
- Maintain and develop the knowledge and skills required to deliver safe and effective care
- Work flexibly across the community according to patient and service needs
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
