Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Dartford; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider in Dartford seeks a Healthcare Assistant to deliver care in patients' homes. Candidates must possess NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent and have strong communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary of £23,875, flexible working, and access to various employee benefits including a group pension and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Salary of £23,875

Access to group pension

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Access to own wages as earned

Support for mental and physical wellbeing

eLearning and career development opportunities

Innovation funding for ideas

Qualifications

• Must have a UK driving licence and access to a car.
• Confidence in using IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing nursing care within patients' homes.
• Maintain accurate and legible patient records.
• Deliver positive experiences to patients.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Flexibility

IT skills - Microsoft Office

Education

NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent qualification

Job description

You will be based in Livingstone Community Hospital, Dartford as part of our community nursing team who provide care to people in their own homes or within a clinic setting. We empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the art new tablets to check in from home, write notes on the go and avoid being trapped in an office base, so they can enjoy working in their chosen community background.

As this is a community based role you will need to have a UK driving licence and access to a car.

Main duties of the job

Within this role you will:

• To assist in providing nursing care as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister within patients 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/Team 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 patients 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, including electronic patient record system (CIS) and any paper records.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 2/3 or the equivalent appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strong communication and organisational skills, and a flexible approach you 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 licence 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.

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 everyday 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 as 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

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.