Bank Healthcare Assistant | Harpenden | Wards | Days/Nights/Weekends Required
Are you a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant looking for flexibility and variety in your role? Join our friendly and supportive team in Harpenden and play a vital role in delivering outstanding patient care.
As a Bank Healthcare Assistant , you'll work on an as-and-when-required basis , helping to support our clinical teams during busy periods, staff absences, and seasonal demands. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a dynamic hospital setting while maintaining flexibility around your lifestyle.
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 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
Shifts Available – Long days Monday to Sunday
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 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
Flexible to be able to work a mixture of days/night shifts
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Benefits
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going 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.”
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date.
