Healthcare Assistant - Wards 25 hours

Bank 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.

• →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

• 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

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