Title: Community Healthcare Assistant
Location: Chippenham, Calne, Trowbridge, Devizes
Salary: £ - £, paid travel time 40p per mile
Are you passionate about making a genuine difference in people's lives? Do you thrive in a fast-paced and rewarding environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow? If so, we invite you to become a vital member of our dedicated healthcare team as a Community Healthcare Assistant.
Required:
- Kind, caring, compassionate individual
- Driving licence
- UK work authorisation
Main Duties and Responsibilities include:
1. When required liaise with Social Workers, District Nurses and other agency professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
2. Contribute towards communicating changes of requirements.
3. Ensure that you work within the company policies and procedures.
4. Attending training and expanding your personal development
5. Assist customers as appropriate with their personal needs, such as dressing, washing, meal preparation and access to their community as detailed in the Care Plan.
6. When working within a customer’s home setting you may be assisting customers with, or where necessary carry out light housework, such as dusting, sweeping/ vacuuming carpets, living rooms/ kitchens/ bathrooms and toilets, polishing furniture using dusters/ mops/ equipment, washing and ironing clothing and bed linen, preparing and cooking a meal.
7. Following the outcome focused model, encourage customers to undertake personal care and tasks which they are capable of, recognising that their abilities may change, in some circumstances, on a day-to-day basis
*CoS Not provided
Being Part of Retain Healthcare, you will benefit from:
8. 28 Days Annual Leave
9. WEEKLY PAY
10. Employee assistance program
11. FLEXIBLE hours - part time or full time, with a range of shifts including days and nights.
12. FREE uniform
13. Paid training
14. DBS Rebate Reimbursement
15. Enhanced Bank Holiday pay
16. Free blue light card
17. Retain Rewards - local discounts
Retain Healthcare Ltd and Retain Skills (South West) Ltd are an equal opportunities employer, offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and DBS Check.