Care Assistant jobs in United Kingdom

A great opportunity has arisen to join us as an Assistant Health Care Support Worker at Great Western Hospital in Swindon. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve. Based in Swindon, you will have the flexibility to work within a model that supports both on-site and hybrid working arrangements, depending on the nature of the role. HCRG Care Group is committed to fostering an agile and adaptable workforce to best meet the needs of our organization and service users.

Please note we are unable to offer overseas sponsorship for this role.

An Assistant Health Care Support Worker (AHCSW) is a core member of the team delivering personal care to patients and supporting registered practitioners to deliver high quality, compassionate care. You will carry out a range of non-clinical healthcare tasks, under the direct supervision of the registered healthcare practitioner. Your role is to provide compassionate care, to agreed quality standards and in accordance with Trust values. There will be opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills, specific to your individual needs. Training will be provided to ensure you have the required core skills and skills set specific to your area of work. You will also be supported to obtain your care certificate if you do not have this qualification.

As a Health Care Assistant, you'll be part of our valued team on our Orchard or Forest Wards at Great Western Hospital.

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

• £23,875 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee 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 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

• Able to demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills at interview assessment.
• Prior experience of providing care in a healthcare or social setting.
• Evidence of ability to work as a member of a team.
• Experience of time management and prioritising work.
• Understands and is committed to a caring approach to patients and relatives.
• Effective and appropriate communication skills both written and verbal.
• Able to complete appropriate documentation accurately.
• Demonstrate an awareness of healthcare work, policies and procedures.
• Committed to providing high quality patient care.
• IT skills, competent in Microsoft Office.
• Keyboard skills.
• Ability and willingness to undertake appropriate training within given time frames.
• Flexible and adaptable to change, able to work a range of shifts and moving across wards/units dependent on clinical needs.
• Able to demonstrate calm, caring patient manner and attitude.
• Enthusiasm and commitment to working within the healthcare setting.
• Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
• Able to meet the physical and developmental demands of the role; the role is physically demanding and can include standing for prolonged periods, moving and handling patients and equipment and other healthcare related tasks.

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.