Healthcare assistants work under the guidance of qualified healthcare professionals like nurses in hospitals and community settings. Their roles and responsibilities vary depending on their place of employment but generally include tasks like washing and dressing patients, serving meals, helping with mobility, monitoring vitals, and providing personal care. They also work with other healthcare workers and have significant patient contact. Good communication, organizational, observational and teamwork skills are important for the role. Spero Healthcare provides a range of home healthcare services including doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, equipment, transportation and labs to help patients who need additional care but can be discharged from the hospital.

1. Healthcare-Assistant

2.  Healthcare assistants (HCAs) work within hospital or community settings
under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional.
 The role can be varied depending upon the area in which the person is
employed. You may be working alongside nurses or midwives in maternity
services.

3.  As a healthcare assistant (HCA), you'll work under the guidance of a
qualified healthcare professional, usually a nurse.
 Sometimes staff working in HCA roles are known as nursing assistants,
nursing auxiliaries or auxiliary nurses.

4. The work varies depending on where you're based. In a hospital for
example, you may be?
 washing and dressing patients
 serving meals and helping to feed patients
 helping people to move around
 toileting
 making beds
 talking to patients and making them comfortable
 monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse,
respirations and weight

5. In a health centres and GP surgery, you may
 sterilise equipment
 do health checks
 restock consulting rooms
 process lab samples
 take blood samples
 do health promotion or health education work
 As well as nurses, HCAs work with doctors, midwives and other healthcare
professionals. They have a lot of contact with patients.

6. Skills and personal characteristics needed
 To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be
 caring and kind
 cheerful and friendly
 willing to be hands-on with patients
 willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
 able to follow instructions and procedures
 able to work in a team but use their own initiative
You'll also need :
 communication skills, including listening
 organization skills
 observational skills

7. Why Spero?
Spero Home healthcare has evolved around the idea of coexisting with
hospital and consultants for a patient who is ill enough to need additional
health care, but stable enough to be discharged from the hospital.
Understanding the current need and challenges faced by the patient,
Spero healthcare have come up with systematic approach to address all the
above challenges by developing technology solution, professional
enhancement through training, integration of services through dedicated
healthcare management and robust processes.

8. Other Services Offer
By Spero
• Physician (Doctor)assistant services
• Physiotherapy services
• Healthcare assistant services (24 Hours)
• Home Healthcare equipment
• Nurse Services
• Medical Transportation
• Respiratory Services
• Lab Service

9. Spero Healthcare
Office No.5 Bhosale House Apts, Karve Road.Pune-411004
WebSite
www.sperohealthcare.in