Healthcare Assistants (HCA)

Nursing & Healthcare

Hands-on care, delivered properly

Healthcare Assistants are the backbone of every care setting, and the difference between a good HCA and a great one shows in every interaction. Flexecare supplies qualified, compassionate HCAs who integrate seamlessly into your team from the first handover.

Every HCA is trained, DBS-checked and referenced, with competencies verified against the work they will actually do in your setting.

Healthcare assistant sharing a positive moment with a resident

What’s included

What this service covers

What Flexecare HCAs handle in your setting.

  • Personal care delivered with dignity and patience
  • Mobility support, transfers and falls prevention
  • Nutrition and hydration support
  • Observations and basic health monitoring
  • Accurate recording and reporting to senior staff
  • Meaningful engagement with residents and patients
  • Team working that lifts the whole shift

We brief every HCA on your setting's routines and expectations before arrival, agency staff who ask the right questions on minute one, not hour three.

Flexecare care team members

Who it’s for

For every setting that delivers care

Residential and nursing homes, clinics, community services and complex care packages across the North West all draw on our HCA workforce, for sickness cover, seasonal pressure, vacancies and planned growth.

Need clinical staff too? We supply RGNs and RMNs alongside HCAs so your whole rota holds together.

How it works

How staffing works

Define the shifts

Numbers, times, setting and any specialist experience needed.

We fill them

Vetted HCAs, matched to your service and briefed before arrival.

Keep the good ones

We prioritise returning the same staff, and support permanent moves transparently.

Common questions

Healthcare Assistants FAQs

Can’t find your answer? Call us on 01772 369045 or browse the full FAQ library.

Core care training (moving and handling, safeguarding, infection control, basic life support) plus setting-specific competencies. Training records are available to your service.

Need dependable agency staff?

Emergency cover, temporary contracts or permanent placements, tell us what your service needs and we will match safe, skilled people to your setting.