UCR Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Healthcare Assistant within the Urgent Community Response Team, providing care to patients in their own homes. Responsibilities include personal care, meal preparation, medication support, wound care, and assisting with prescribed exercise programs. The team focuses on preventing hospital admissions and supporting early discharges, as well as providing end-of-life care. Good communication and collaboration with nurses and therapists are essential.
Key responsibilities
- Provide personal care, meal preparation, and medication support to patients in their homes.
- Perform wound care and assist with prescribed exercise programmes.
- Provide prescribed equipment and complete night-sits.
- Contribute to the delivery of care pathways for patients with long-term conditions, palliative care, and rehabilitation needs.
- Work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support early discharges.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals and agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3, or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Good general education, including GCSE Grace C in English and Maths
- Experience of working within a health or social care setting
- Able to communicate effectively using the English language in both verbal and written form
- Good interpersonal skills
- Able to work as part of a team
- Highly motivated
- Able to provide high standards of care
- Tact and diplomacy
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Ability to use own initiative
- Awareness of the need to escalate to senior staff
- Good observational and reporting skills
- Ability to manage stressful situations
- Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs
- Professional appearance
- The ability to kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments
- Able to manoeuvre limbs of around 5-6kg
- Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids
- Be reliable
- The post holder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of the post through occupational health with any reasonable aids and adaptations if necessary. Some roles require additional levels of checks as part of the employment process i.e. roles which come into contact with children, vulnerable adults or their families
- Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
- Be able to make own travel arrangements to patients, clinics, base and meetings as required
- This is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery are 8am-8pm 365 days per year
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a community care setting
- Knowledge of SystmOne
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 13d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
UCR Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
Exciting opportunity - Come and join us.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to join the expanding Urgent Community Response Team. We are looking for Healthcare Assistants who enjoy the diversity and variety of caring for patients in crises within their own home, as well as supporting people to have the best possible quality end of life care.
Main duties of the job
This role involves providing personal care, meal preparation and medication support, wound care, prompting prescribed exercise programmes, providing prescribed equipment and completing night-sits. Good communication and collaboration as part of the Urgent Community Response nursing and therapy team is essential. You will have regular supervision and professional development opportunities.
Urgent Community Response is a short term service, we make people safe and refer them on to other appropriate services as needed. Our focus is primarily admission avoidance to secondary care, keeping people safe in their own homes, including people at the end of their life, and also supporting discharges from secondary care or in-patient units.
The role also supports community Nursing teams with Wound care and injections.
About us
We are recruiting additional Band 3 Healthcare Assist
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