Healthcare Assistant Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Assisting with activities of daily living and domestic duties;
- Help residents to identify and choose their support needs;
- Enable residents to achieve independence as far as possible in all areas of their life;
- Turning service users who are required to spend a lot of time in bed, in order to avoid bed sores;
- Changing sheets and making beds;
- Supporting daily activities;
- One to one support;
- Recording and reporting, completing food and fluid charts, or other daily monitoring records;
- General care and assistance running the home;
- Providing personal care following care plans provided by the home;
- Taking part in, and assisting service users to take part in activities and entertainment;
- Assisting with the cleaning and tidying of the establishment to help support infection control;
- Following service users’ care plans at all times;
- Catheter Care;
- Personal care.
Requirements:
- Full-time agency;
- You must have a good standard of English and be able to communicate effectively;
- A warm, compassionate and personable nature with the ability to work with patience, tact and understanding;
- Experience is preferred but not essential;
- Two work related contact details for referees;
- Experience of working with clients with complex care needs (advantageous);
- Able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice;
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing;
- Efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions from other team members;
- Tracheostomy care;
- Enhanced Disclosure;
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and listening;
- Proof of N.I. (N.I. cards, payslip, P45, P60);
- Reliability is of utmost importance as home care clients are dependent on their care team for every day needs;
- Catheter care.