Healthcare Assistant - Wards 25 hours in Harpenden

Spire Harpenden Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a 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 setting 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 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 teamwork 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:

• 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, ongoing 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.