Health Care Assistant (HCA)

Health Care Assistant

We’re looking for an experienced Health Care Assistant to join a leading nursing home based in Southampton.

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Easy to apply:

Please email rob@stannesnursing.co.uk with a copy of your CV or call 02380585032 and ask if you can speak with Robert regarding the Care Assistant position.

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Our Story

St Anne’s Nursing Home is a modern and progressive elderly nursing care provider with a history of serving the community for over four decades. Our core principles are at the heart of everything we do: dignity, comfort, privacy, empathy and choice.

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We have never stopped improving, and today the home is a purpose-built facility providing up to 54 service users with person centred nursing care. The home features en-suite rooms, multiple reception spaces, landscaped gardens and the latest care equipment.

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We actively encourage all team members to continuously improve our home and facilities. We recently deployed electronic care management to enable our team to deliver even better care, and we are advancing to electronic medication management in the near future.

Our Culture

If you would enjoy being part of a supportive, ambitious and dedicated team with high professional and ethical standards, St Anne’s Nursing Home could be the right place to grow your career.

Our purpose is to provide dignity, comfort, privacy, choice and empathy to all residents who live with us. Our team makes this purpose a reality and have allowed us to fill a crucial role in the community. Many have been with us since we began, and have progressed to become leaders within the organisation.

We are currently rated Good by CQC and are investing in our team and systems with a goal of achieving an Outstanding CQC rating in the future. You will be joining a team that is proud to deliver excellent care even in the most challenging circumstances. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic our carers, nurses, domestics and administrators demonstrated exceptional commitment and skill, safeguarding themselves, patients and visitors.

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Benefits of Working at St Anne’s

Salary of up to £30,000 per annum (£9 - £12 per hour) depending on experience and level.

Unlimited training and development budget for relevant courses and qualifications. We provide regular on-site training in addition to supporting our team members to advance through professional milestones.

Progression is encouraged for all team members, with regular advancement opportunities. A Lead Carer role is currently available for candidates with the necessary ambition and ability.

We provide flexible or full time working opportunities with hours that suit your lifestyle and commitments.

We provide sick pay and holiday pay enhancements.

All employees receive 28 days paid holiday per year (pro rata) and payment in lieu of holiday not taken.

 

About the Role

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Assisting residents with personal care duties such as bathing, dressing and toileting.

Maintaining daily care notes on our handheld devices and ensuring information about residents is personalised and up to date.

Supporting residents to move around the home. This might involve supporting them to walk, transferring them in a wheelchair or using a hoist.

Repositioning residents to ensure they are comfortable and supported.

Admin duties: updating food, fluid and stool charts.

Supporting the Nurse or Senior Care Assistant to monitor the health of our residents and reporting any significant changes.

Serving meals/drinks and transferring residents to the dining room (day shift only).

If you work night shifts you will check service users throughout the night to ensure they are safe and comfortable; assisting with repositioning.

Attending planned activities: assisting the team, repositioning, providing care as necessary.

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About You

You're someone that cares for others and wants to make a real difference to people's lives.

You have previous care experience and ideally have an NVQ 2 qualification in Health & Social Care.

You'll cherish the rewarding moments you have with our residents each and every day.

You understand there will be challenging days, but you'll also laugh, have fun and make lasting

memories with our residents.

You'll understand that providing great care means looking beyond the established way of doing things - for opportunities to do things better.

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Hours

Shift times are 8am to 2pm, 2pm to 8pm and 8am to 8pm.

Flexible shift patterns and full time contracts are available.

Nights and Days Available

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Application Process

Round 1: Send us your CV. We aim to respond to all applications within one week.
Round 2: A telephone interview with one of our senior team.
Round 3: A meeting with the nursing home manager and company director.

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COVID-19 considerations

We have a range of additional infection prevention and control measures in place including sanitization, PPE, enhanced deep cleaning, visitation protocols and regular training. As a result we have kept cases to a minimum and protected our team members and service users.

Please note this job is only suitable for UK-based applicants