Health Care Assistant

We are seeking a compassionate and experienced Health Care Assistant to join our dedicated team in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). In this role, you will play a vital part in assessing, providing, and evaluating safe, high-quality care for sick, preterm, and vulnerable babies. Caring for others may be the most rewarding job you could ever do. Alongside countless opportunities to enhance your clinical skills and receive support with your personal development, you could be the person to support our babies and their families through their most difficult times. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou This is a rewarding opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of newborns and their families. If you are passionate about neonatal care and providing exceptional support to families, we would love to hear from you. Main duties of the job

• Working closely with infants, their parents, carers, and families to support and teach them how to care for their baby, ensuring they feel involved and confident as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Offering emotional support to anxious and distressed parents, providing them with clear, relevant information about their infant's condition to help alleviate concerns and guide them through this challenging time.
Experience of working in a care setting with infants or families would be advantageous but all necessary skills training, professional updates and mandatory training as appropriate to the post will be will be an expectation of a flexible approach to shifts patterns with a commitment to participate in the on call service after appropriate training.

Qualifications Essential NVQ 3 or equivalent in health care Experience Essential Working with babies and families Additional Criteria Essential
• Good standard of literacy / English language skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
  
  As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines.
You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan there is truly something for everyone!