Overview
Client Name: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS
Role: Mental Health Care Assistant
Rates: Up to £19.03 per hour
Shifts: Flexible work during the week and weekends – Early, Lates, Long days and Nights
Location: Westmorland General Hospital, Burton Road, Kendal, LA9 7RG
Benefits:
- Access to Care4Carers – our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care
- First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
- Competitive pay rates
- A dedicated placement officer
- Hundreds of new shifts available every day
- Long term jobs and short shifts available
- Lucrative referral scheme
- 24/7/365 support – we’re here when you need us
Working flexible shifts on various wards throughout Westmorland General Hospital, you will provide much-needed care and support to people when they are feeling unwell, vulnerable, and unsure. A significant reliance is placed on the vital care you will provide to ensure a patients care experience is the very best it can be.
The very best Healthcare Assistants are individuals who show empathy, patience, consideration, passion, and dedication. You don’t need to have any previous experience in care; your personality is so much more important in a role like this.
Healthcare Assistant opportunities are diverse and provide a wide range of career opportunities regardless of your experience level, full training and support will be provided at every stage of your career to ensure you have the skills needed for the role.
This is an ideal role if you want to progress your career around your family and home commitments. Working and driving your career forwards alongside other responsibilities is no easy task, but with flexible shifts and excellent career prospects, this is a perfect way to achieve your goals.
Patient focus
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will play an essential part in so many people’s lives. This is a role where you can see the impact of your work daily, with the sense of achievement and satisfaction that comes with making a real difference.
General key skills
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will have:
- Empathy and understanding
- Compassion and a caring nature
- A warm and friendly personality
- A passion for good conversation
- Quick thinking abilities
- Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
- Excellent attention to detail
- A systematic approach to tasks
- Excellent timekeeping
- The ability to work well and under pressure
- A flexible attitude
- A desire to improve and develop knowledge and skills
- Active listening skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a HCA, your duties could include:
- washing and dressing patients
- serving meals and helping to feed patients
- helping people to move around and feel more comfortable
- making beds and helping other healthcare staff where needed
- monitoring patients’ conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations, and weight
- sterilising equipment, restocking consulting rooms, trolleys, and stations
- carrying out health checks, taking blood samples and processing lab samples
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
- You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
- References that cover the last two years. They can be either employment, professional, academic, or written from the Job Centre/Benefits Office
Patient focus
So, if you can combine empathy and understanding with practical hands-on patient care, we want to hear from you. Apply today.
