Healthcare Assistant

A Healthcare Assistant (HCA) supports patients with their day-to-day care and helps nurses and other healthcare professionals provide safe, comfortable treatment.

Typical Healthcare Assistant Job Role

• Personal care: Helping patients with washing, dressing, toileting, eating, and mobility.

• Patient support: Providing reassurance, companionship, and emotional support.

• Monitoring: Checking and reporting changes in a patient's condition, such as temperature, pulse, blood pressure, or oxygen levels when trained to do so.

• Mobility: Helping patients move safely, including using mobility aids and following moving-and-handling procedures.

• Nutrition: Assisting with meals and drinks and recording food or fluid intake when required.

• Infection control: Following hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, and infection-prevention procedures.

• Documentation: Accurately recording care provided and reporting concerns to nurses or senior staff.

• Teamwork: Working with nurses, doctors, therapists, patients, and families.

• Safety: Maintaining patient dignity, confidentiality, safeguarding, and a safe care environment.

• Other duties: Preparing equipment, making beds, supporting clinical procedures within your training, and keeping care areas clean and organised.

Key Skills

Compassion • Communication • Patience • Teamwork • Reliability • Observation • Respect for confidentiality • Time management • Basic clinical awareness

Requirements:

1. Up to date DBS

2. Mandatory Trainings with Practical Moving and Handling Training with Certificate

3. Valid RTW (SHARE CODE or any other identification)

4. Professional References