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Healthcare Assistant

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Job Description

Location: Various aged care facilities in New Plymouth, Whangarei, Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin

Hours of work: Casual on-call (confirmed prior to each assignment)

About the Role:

As a Healthcare Assistant for R-Connect, you will be deployed to complete temporary assignments across various aged care facilities in New Zealand. You will gain a broad range of experience and deliver quality care to residents.

As this is a casual role, you will be prompted when a temp vacancy is available, and you will only need to accept this when you are available.

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

  • You need to be a New Zealand Citizen/Resident or have open work visa conditions
  • New Zealand Certificate in Health and wellbeing level 3 or 4 preferred
  • Aged care experience required
  • 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

R-Connect specialises in placing Healthcare Professionals in Aged Care organisations across New Zealand for temporary assignments.

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R-Connect supports equality and diversity in our workforce. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities, development of your career pathway, and a safe and healthy work environment. We welcome all applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs; we value the experience that you will bring to our organisation.

E kaha tautoko ana a R-Connect i te ōritetanga, me te kanorau ā ō tātou nei kaimahi. E pirihonga ana mātou ki te whakaroto i ngā whiwhinga mahi whakaōrite, me te whakawhanake i tō umanga ngaio. Āno hoki , kia haumaru , kia hauora hoki tō tātou whaitua mahi. Tēnei te mihi maioha ki a kōutou , ngā kaitono kātoa. Āhakoa nō hea koe , āhakoa te pakeke , tō ira tangata rānei. E whai tīkanga ana tō tātou nei rōpu whakahaere, i ngā wheako whaiaro maha kei a kōutou kātoa.


Desired Soft Skills

  • Empathy
  • Effective Communication
  • Flexibility
  • Timeliness
  • Relationship Building
  • Personal Cares
  • Healthcare Documentation
  • Basic Nursing
  • Elderly Support
  • Shift Handover

Benefits and Perks

  • 🌿
    Wellness Program
  • 🎉
    Employee Discounts and Rewards

Job Schedule

  • Shift Work

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