Healthcare Assistant

What you'll do

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced

• Carrying out personal care duties with close supervision and making judgements involving straightforward facts or situations

• Monitoring the physical and emotional well-being of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues, as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact - achieved by talking and working with them

• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation

• Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals' experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff

• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.

• Supporting service users to have their views and experiences considered in the way the service is provided and delivered

• Having a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources. This includes safeguarding, handling cash and service users' valuables

• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

• For an insight in to what the role would entail please watch our video detailing a Day in the Life of one of our Support Workers at Brainkind: Working at Brainkind: A day in the life - Millie