Healthcare Assistant

We are hiring Healthcare Assistants to work full-time (44) or part-time (11-33) hours each week. Our shifts are 12 hours long with a 60 minute unpaid break and can offer 4 long days or wake nights. Our homes are located:

There will be opportunities for overtime around sickness and annual leave to supplement your income.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to;

Previous experience would be beneficial to help you adapt to a busy environment, but a positive attitude, compassion and a desire to get involved are crucial to what we look for in our people. Full training and support will be provided for all successful candidates, including classroom sessions at our Head Office, online learning and shadow shifts to help you deliver high quality care to the people we support.

We are looking for our Healthcare Assistants to be caring and compassionate. You could work with residents who have significant care needs, so its important that they are made to feel safe and comfortable.

HCAs are the first face of Optalis and must be observant and have excellent communication skills when dealing with residents and their colleagues.

To be calm under pressure and flexible enough to deal with a variety of tasks and a quickly changing schedule.

Communicating effectively and respectfully with patients and those important to them, sometimes in difficult circumstances.

Accurately recording observations in accordance with the residents conditions, informing the Nurse on duty of any changes and responding accordingly.

To provide physical and social care for residents whilst promoting the company policy of independence, choice, rights, fulfilment, privacy, dignity and equal opportunity.

Optalis is a LATCo (Local Authority Trading Company) jointly owned by Wokingham Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

Optalis delivers adult social care on behalf of the two local authorities. We have nearly 70 services across the WBC and RBWM boroughs, supporting adults with learning disabilities to live independently, providing dementia and nursing care for older people and offering reablement services to help people return home from hospital.

We provide stable employment and opportunities to develop yourself and advance your career.

Optalis is not an agency and we do not offer sponsorship.

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