Description

We are seeking a healthcare assistant to support healthcare professionals under the supervision of qualified nursing staff in a range of duties. Their tasks include assisting patients with personal care and conducting clinical duties, as well as carrying out, monitoring, and recording the results of medical tests, which the healthcare professional will then analyze.

To be successful as a healthcare assistant, you should possess a caring and nurturing personality. You should also be able to handle physically demanding tasks, such as supporting the weight of patients to aid mobility, turning patients over, and lifting heavy medical equipment.

Healthcare Assistant Responsibilities:
Ensuring that supplies and medical equipment are replenished.
Improving the mobility of patients.
Setting up equipment required by healthcare professionals.
Taking the temperature, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels of patients, and recording the results.
Recording the pulse rate of patients.
Measuring patients’ weight.
Preparing patients for therapy.
Making up beds, giving out bedpans, and collecting bedpans.