Healthcare Assistant - The Orbital, Swindon, SN25 4AN
We are excited to be recruiting a number of Healthcare Assistant to join our team at The Orbital in Swindon. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time roles, offering flexibility to suit your lifestyle.

In this varied and rewarding position, you will have the opportunity to work within our integrated neighbourhood teams, working closely with our multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. Comprehensive and appropriate training will be provided to ensure you feel confident and supported in your role.

HCRG is advancing a major transformation to embed the Integrated Neighbourhood Health vision set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. By fostering stronger collaboration across services and adopting innovative ways of working, we aim to create healthier, more resilient communities and ensure that health and care resources are used where they have the greatest impact.

If you are caring, motivated, and keen to develop your skills in a supportive healthcare environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
• To keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• Responsibility for, and supporting, the day-to-day care of patients, including monitoring.
• To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
• To work within a multi-professional team and to feed back service user progress, liaising with colleagues, families, carers and other agencies.
• To assist registered and unregistered staff, referring to registered staff when necessary.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

What We Are Looking For
Essential

• Good general education.
• Care Certificate or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management skills.
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

Desirable

• Experience of community working.
• Experience of the NHS.
• Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting.
• Experience of working in rehabilitation.
• Basic wound care knowledge and skills.
• Experience in venepuncture/taking bloods.

Package Description
As a Healthcare Assistant you will be part of our valued team based at The Orbital, Swindon, SN25 4AN. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A Band 3 salary with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through our learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which help us deliver our purpose, backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

Safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults we work with is of the utmost importance. Everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Your information will be processed in line with HCRG Care Group's privacy policy.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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