Healthcare Assistant

Purus Healthcare Ltd; Gamston; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Purus Healthcare Ltd is seeking a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to support patients with daily care, comfort, and safety in a clinical setting.

You will assist with personal care, meals, mobility, and hydration, monitor patient conditions, and maintain infection control. Working alongside nurses and other staff, you will record care provided, follow treatment plans, and help keep wards clean and well organised.

Qualifications

• Up-to-date DBS check.
• Mandatory Moving and Handling training with certificate.
• Valid right to work in the UK (SHARE CODE or equivalent).
• Professional references available on request.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care, help with dressing, washing, and mobility.
• Assist with meals, hydration, and recording intake.
• Monitor vital signs and report changes to nursing staff.
• Maintain infection control and PPE compliance.
• Record care provided and communicate with the team.
• Prepare equipment and keep care areas clean and organised.

Skills

Compassion

Communication

Patience

Teamwork

Reliability

Observation

Respect for confidentiality

Time management

Basic clinical awareness

Job description

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

• Up to date DBS
• Mandatory Trainings with Practical Moving and Handling Training with Certificate
• Valid RTW (SHARE CODE or any other identification)
• Professional References