**Job Title:** Healthcare Assistant
Job Description:
The role of a Healthcare Assistant involves providing support to nursing staff in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to residents. This includes getting to know residents' interests and needs, providing attention, support, and companionship.
Additionally, the successful candidate will be responsible for promoting the mobility of residents, supervising and assisting as necessary to ensure optimum mobility is maintained and improved where possible.
They will also enable and assist residents to maintain their personal appearance/hygiene needs, enabling and assisting residents to eat/drink and achieve physical comfort, and participating, organising and carrying out social activities.
The ideal candidate will sustain high levels of communication between residents' families and staff, developing and maintaining good relationships, and assist in the upkeep of high standards of cleanliness in the home.
Contributing to the maintenance of Health and Safety in the home is also essential. The successful candidate will have a Level 5 qualification in Healthcare or equivalent, experience working in a healthcare environment with a good knowledge of HIQA standards, and excellent communication skills.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Qualification: FETAC/QQI Level 5 in Healthcare or equivalent
* Experience: Experience working in a healthcare environment with HIQA standards
* Skills: Excellent communication skills, caring and empathetic nature, fluency in English (written and oral)
Benefits:
We offer guaranteed hours contracts, Sunday premium rates, double time on Bank Holidays, paid breaks, retail discounts, employee assistance programme, comprehensive induction training, and opportunities for career progression.
Others:
This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role and the range of duties, it does not attempt to detail every activity. Maximum flexibility is required to work in the nursing home.