Healthcare Assistant - Wards

Healthcare Assistant | Harpenden | Wards | 25 hours per week | Required to workdays/Nights/Weekends

Spire Harpenden Hospital has an exciting opportunity for Healthcare Assistant to join their ward department on a part time contract (25 hours per week). The successful applicant will work in a team that provides high quality evidence-based nursing care in a surgical settings to facilitate smooth and efficient patient pathways.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To assist the qualified nursing staff, under their supervision, in providing a high quality, comprehensive nursing service to all patients and users, ensuring a high standard of a patient care is maintained in a clean and safe environment.
• Contributing to the support and monitoring of patients
• Identifying and reporting any significant changes that might affect the patient’s health and well-being to the appropriate person

Who we are looking for:

• Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a hospital environment
• Theatre/minor ops experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations (Desirable)
• Good team work ethic
• Enthusiastic and energetic professional
• NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 is desirable but not essential

Shifts – Long days & Nights You must be able to work any shifts Monday to Sunday

Benefits

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications