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Job description:
- Helping patients to undertake personal tasks, including washing, showering, and using the toilet
- Serving food to patients and helping them to eat if they are physically weak
- Making the beds & changing linen where necessary
- Talking to patients to ease loneliness and feelings of isolation
- Listening to the needs of patients and acting on these needs as appropriate
- Helping patients move around their environment, to feel comfortable in care homes or hospitals. This involves keeping their living area extremely clean and tidy
- Improving the mobility of patients
- Giving out & collecting bedpans
- Assisting the healthcare professional whilst they administer therapy or treatment
- Ensuring that the patient is comfortable whilst the therapy or treatment is being administered
- Ensuring protection against abuse
- Recording & reporting care progression of patients, including incidents & accidents
Skills needed:
- A caring, approachable & tactful nature
- An open mind
- The desire to work with people of all ages and from all backgrounds
- Good communication and listening skills
- To ensure confidential & sensitive information is shared on a need to know basis
- A respectful approach to patients and colleagues
- Flexibility
- The ability to work as part of a team
- The ability to remain patient and calm in tough situations
- A good sense of humour
- Reliability
- Good organisational skills
Immediate start - Flexible Hours - Pay from £10.00/hour
Email info@htrcare.com to apply