Healthcare Assistant

HCRG Care Group; Dartford; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading community nursing team as a Healthcare Assistant at Livingstone Community Hospital in Dartford. You'll provide essential care to patients in their homes or clinics, enjoying autonomy and flexibility. This role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Salary of £23,875

Access to group pension

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to wages as earned

Support for mental and physical wellbeing

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Qualifications

• Strong communication and organization skills are essential.
• Ability to work unsupervised and plan home visits.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing nursing care within patients' homes.
• Maintain accurate patient records and implement evidence-based care.
• Provide clerical support to the nursing team.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Education

NVQ level 2/3

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Job Introduction

Join our dynamic team at Livingstone Community Hospital in Dartford, where you'll be a key part of our dedicated community nursing team, providing exceptional care to patients in their homes or within a clinic setting. We empower our staff to thrive with autonomy and flexibility, offering cutting-edge tablets to help you stay connected, update patient notes on the go, and eliminate the need to be tied to an office. This means you can truly embrace the freedom and satisfaction of working in your community!

Job Introduction

Join our dynamic team at Livingstone Community Hospital in Dartford, where you'll be a key part of our dedicated community nursing team, providing exceptional care to patients in their homes or within a clinic setting. We empower our staff to thrive with autonomy and flexibility, offering cutting-edge tablets to help you stay connected, update patient notes on the go, and eliminate the need to be tied to an office. This means you can truly embrace the freedom and satisfaction of working in your community!

As this is a community-based role, you'll need a valid UK driving licence and access to a car. Our service operates from 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact in the lives of those you care for. Come be a part of something rewarding and transformative!

Main Responsibility

Within this role you will:

• To assist in providing nursing care as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister within patient’s homes.
• To maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
• To provide clerical and administrative support to the team as delegated by the Senior Sister/Teaam Sister.
• To undertake the technical aspects of nursing care e.g. Dressings, glucose monitoring etc. following a period of training and when deemed competent to do so.
• To implement evidence-based nursing care, within the patient’s home.
• To have the ability to work unsupervised, planning and organising tasks and home visits as delegated by the nurse in charge.
• Maintain accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements – this includes electronic patient record system (CIS) and any paper records
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 2/3 or the equivalent appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

In this role, you will need to be able to travel across the patch in a timely manner so a UK driving license is needed and access to a car.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team based within our Dartford Central Team, at Livingstone Community Hospital.

You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £23,875 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well 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 you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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