Healthcare Assistant

Job description

Induction will be needed for FOUR hours to start working here***

Shift Pattern: (Apply online only) & (Apply online only)

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:

1. Up to date DBS

2. Mandatory Trainings with Practical Moving and Handling Training with Certificate

3. Valid RTW (SHARE CODE or any other identification)
4. Professional References

5. Other mandatory documents...

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Chilworth

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

25-10-2026

Profession type

Health / Medical

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English