Healthcare Assistant

Exceptional People Exceptional Care            

About the Role

Location: Radius Heatherlea, 139 Vivian Street, New Plymouth 4310 

Please see our stunning facility on our website

Hours of work: 30 hours per week

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will work under the guidance of a Registered Nurse to provide quality care. Assist with feeding and washing a patient. You don’t need any formal qualifications to be a Healthcare Assistant, you do need to have compassion, ability to learn if you want to progress in the field. 

Some Duties include but not limited to:

• Report to the charge nurse and complete delegated tasks in a timely manner
• Residents’ personal care tasks i.e. hygiene, grooming, toileting
• Including mobilising, shaving, brushing of teeth and hair
• Maintain documents in resident healthcare records

Skills and Experience

• 1+ years of previous aged care experience preferred
• New Zealand Certificate in Health and wellbeing level 2-3 or equivalent is preferred but not essential  
• People skills with empathy for the elderly and their families
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• The flexibility to work on a rostered shift basis

About the company

We are a New Zealand owned and operated company, Radius Care specialises in health and aged care for the elderly and disabled. 22 locations nationwide, employing over 1500 staff and providing professional aged care for more than 1700 residents. We are one of the leading health care providers in New Zealand.

Benefits

• Benefits and discounts via our staff app with over 40 retail outlets
• The Employee Assistance Programme
• Training and development, i.e. literacy and numeracy, assistance with NZQA qualifications
• Long service payment