Healthcare Assistant

Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Milton Keynes
COS: N/A
Working pattern: Full-time

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will join an inclusive and supportive team, using your knowledge and skills to provide care and support to people with a range of mental health conditions. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene. It’s a challenging yet rewarding environment, where you can see the positive impact of your involvement in helping someone’s life improve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with a range of Mental health conditions, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.

Your day-to-day will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care accordingly with colleagues, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene.  

It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of your involvement, knowing that you’ve made someone’s life better.

The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends. 

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant or in a similar caregiving role would be advantageous.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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