Care Assistant/ HCA/Healthcare Assistant

Care Assistant/ HCA/Healthcare Assistant

My client is based in Coventry (Leamington Spa) they are looking for Healthcare professionals HCAs/Care Assistant or Healthcare Assistant to work in their fantastic private nursing home.

Job summary

• The Care Assistant is responsible for providing high quality and professional care to all service users in the care centre; including physical, social and emotional care.

Shift Patterns

7:00am till 2:30pm or 2:00pm till 9:30pm.

These are perm positions so you can work fulltime or part time

Reports to

Care Co-ordinator

Principle duties & responsibilities

• Assisting the service users in all personal care (including; washing , dressing, toileting, feeding and manoeuvring), whilst encouraging as much independence as possible;
• Ensuring that service users are presentable in appearance at all times;
• Assisting residents to move to the dining area at mealtimes and other communal areas for social activities and stimulation and to the privacy of their bedrooms at their request;
• Assisting service users to eat and drink, monitoring intake and reporting any concerns to the nurse in charge;
• Ensuring bedroom areas are kept tidy, pleasant and comfortable by making beds, regularly changing bed linen and emptying commodes;
• Ensuring dignity and respect is maintained at all times;
• Caring for service users’ property and that belonging to the care centre. When money is taken from a service users’ purse/wallet, the action must be witnessed by two auxiliaries;
• Completing all daily monitoring records in a timely matter;
• Reporting any changes in residents’ conditions to the nurse on duty;
• Reporting incidents to residents, staff or visitors to the nurse on duty, and record it on the accident/incident form;
• Cleaning up spillages as they occur using appropriate equipment supplied and specified in the Infection Control Policy;
• Working within the guidelines of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, staff handbook and company Health and Safety Policy;

If you interested please apply ASAP as these positions get filled very quickly! As it’s a brilliant home to work for!