Now Hiring: Healthcare Assistant in Taunton (Visa Sponsorship Offered) NHS Jobs

Digitaltidewave; Taunton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join their team. In this role, you will engage with patients, providing compassionate care while carrying out essential health monitoring procedures. The position requires a good understanding of healthcare principles and the ability to work under supervision, ensuring high-quality patient service across various settings.

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of health and social care principles.
• Ability to perform tasks under supervision.
• Understanding of human physiology and lifespan development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct tasks such as phlebotomy, spirometry, and ECG testing.
• Provide high quality and compassionate care to patients.
• Accountability for actions taken during patient interaction.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Compassion

Understanding of health factors

Job description

Job role: Healthcare Assistant

Company name:NHS Jobs

Job Reference: A3705-25-0000

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About the Job:

Main roles will include but will not be limited to phlebotomy, spirometry, FeNO, ECG/ECG Holter tests, weight, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

• Healthcare Assistants work as part of the wider health and social care team and have direct contact with patients, service users or clients providing high quality and compassionate care.
• Healthcare Assistants have a more in-depth understanding about factors that influence health and ill-health.
• Healthcare Assistants will work in a variety of services and will develop additional skills and knowledge based on the service area in which they work.
• A Healthcare Assistant works under the supervision of a Registered Practitioner in accordance with organisational policy, protocols and standard operating procedures. The Registered Practitioner remains accountable for the appropriate and effective delegation of activities and must ensure that the
• Healthcare Assistant has the competency, confidence and expertise to carry out such activities.
• Having accepted the activity, the Healthcare Assistant is accountable for their actions. In a situation where the Healthcare Assistant feels they do not have the necessary skills or ability then they must alert the registered practitioner immediately.
• As an Healthcare Assistant you will have a basic understanding of: the principles and philosophy of health and social care; the physiology, organisation and function of the human body; lifespan developments and healthcare needs; research and development in the health and social care sector to inform and improve quality of care; provision and promotion of holistic person centred care and support, duty of care and safeguarding of individuals; the importance of the strategic environment in health and social care and the implications for the individual; the importance of current evidence based practice within scope of the role.

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