Healthcare Assistant

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

My Reward Hub discounts

Wage access as you earn

Wellbeing support

Career development

Job summary

The Orbital in Swindon is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join our multidisciplinary team, delivering compassionate community-based patient care. Training will be provided, with opportunities for development within our Integrated Neighbourhood Health model.

We welcome both full-time and part-time applications, with a focus on high-quality, patient-centered support and flexible working arrangements where possible.

Qualifications

• Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient-focused care.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use lifting aids.
• Experience in providing care or rehab/exercise.
• Self-motivated with good time management.
• Must have a current full driving licence and access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Deliver treatment/care within a community setting under guidance of a registered practitioner.
• Keep the patient at the centre of their care and involve them in decisions.
• Support day-to-day care of patients including monitoring.
• Communicate with patients about routine activities and overcome barriers.
• Work within a multi-professional team and report progress to colleagues and carers.
• Assist registered and unregistered staff and refer to registered staff when needed.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Patient care

Typing

Data entry

Education

Care Certificate

Job description

Healthcare Assistant – The Orbital, Swindon, SN25 4AN

We are excited to be recruiting a number of Healthcare Assistant to join our team at The Orbital in Swindon. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time roles, offering flexibility to suit your lifestyle.In this varied and rewarding position, you will have the opportunity to work within our integrated neighbourhood teams, working closely with our multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. Comprehensive and appropriate training will be provided to ensure you feel confident and supported in your role.HCRG is advancing a major transformation to embed the Integrated Neighbourhood Health vision set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. By fostering stronger collaboration across services and adopting innovative ways of working, we aim to create healthier, more resilient communities and ensure that health and care resources are used where they have the greatest impact.If you are caring, motivated, and keen to develop your skills in a supportive healthcare environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
• To keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• Responsibility for, and supporting, the day-to-day care of patients, including monitoring.
• To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
• To work within a multi-professional team and to feed back service user progress, liaising with colleagues, families, carers and other agencies.
• To assist registered and unregistered staff, referring to registered staff when necessary.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

What We’re Looking For

Essential

• Good general education.
• Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management skills.
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

Desirable

• Experience of community working.
• Experience of the NHS.
• Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting.
• Experience of working in rehabilitation.
• Basic wound care knowledge and skills.
• Experience in venepuncture/taking bloods

Package Description

• A Band 3 salary with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffeeand 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 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. 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.