Job Description
- Application Deadline: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT
- Position: Healthcare Assistant
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 2 - 5 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Pharmaceutical 
Job Overview
A healthcare assistant assists healthcare professionals to provide care to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, or in the home of the patient
Responsibilities and Duties
- 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
Qualifications, Competences & Skills Required
- NVQ qualification in health and social care.
- Pass a medical check.
- Clear background check.
- Previous experience in a caring role, preferred.
- Previous medical experience is useful but not essential.
- The desire to work with all people, irrespective of background, race, or creed.
- Good communication skills.
- Good listening skills.
- Physically able to lift patients.
- A tactful and approachable personality