Health Care Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This Health Care Assistant role is within the 30-bedded London Spinal Cord Injury Centre, providing person-focused care as part of a multi-professional team. You will assist registered nurses in delivering patient care, including daily living activities, clinical observations, and maintaining ward hygiene. The position is full-time, requiring shift work, and focuses on rehabilitation nursing for patients with spinal cord injuries.
Essential criteria
- Care certificate
- GCSE pass in maths and english/ functional skills and test on day
Desirable criteria
- NVQ 3/apprenticeship
- Evidence that can undertake clinical observations
- Evidence that undertake manual handling
- Infection control knowledge
- Respiratory skills
- Spinal cord injury experience and knowledge
- Experience in health care setting in UK
- Evidence of team working
- Worked in the NHS previously
- Able to escalate appropriately
- Demonstrate importance of maintaining privacy and dignity
- Compassion for patients
- IT skills
- Communication
- Able to communicate accurately and effectively with patients and colleagues, verbally and in writing
- Able to follow instructions and complete assigned tasks
- Able to deal with the public in person and on the phone
- Able to support and reassure patients/carers in distress
- Care certificate
- GCSE pass in maths and english/ functional skills and test on day
- NVQ 3/apprenticeship
- Evidence that can undertake clinical observations
- Evidence that undertake manual handling
- Infection control knowledge
- Respiratory skills
- Spinal cord injury experience and knowledge
- Experience in health care setting in UK
- Evidence of team working
- Worked in the NHS previously
- Able to escalate appropriately
- Demonstrate importance of maintaining privacy and dignity
- Compassion for patients
- IT skills
- Communication
- Able to communicate accurately and effectively with patients and colleagues, verbally and in writing
- Able to follow instructions and complete assigned tasks
- Able to deal with the public in person and on the phone
- Able to support and reassure patients/carers in distress
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £30,630 – £32,346 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Health Care Assistant
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
The London Spinal Cord Injury Centre is a 30-bedded Unit that provides person focused care within a multi-professional team for patients with spinal cord injury. This process is from the early stages of rehabilitation and preparing for reintegration into the community.
We are looking for Health Care Assistants with previous clinical experience, who are passionate about the importance of rehabilitation nursing to join our diverse nursing team. This is a full time post of 37.5 hours per week, for shift work including a mixture of early, late, long day and night shifts.
We are looking for innovative and inspirational individuals to join our team in the provision of high quality care to the rehabilitation of patients. You will be a part of an enthusiastic, friendly and hardworking team who participate in the Stanmore Safe Accreditation Ward initiative, continually striving and working on enhancing our patients care delivery. A flexible approach, good sense of humour and the ability to prioritise workloads is a must.
Must have care certificate and provide evidence of this at interview, please be aware that you will be required to complete a maths and English assessment on the day of interview.
Sponsorship for this post is offered by the Trust.
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