Health Care Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 18.75
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This Health Care Assistant role is within the Bladder and Bowel Service, a multi-professional team working across BNSSG. The service diagnoses and treats continence issues, provides domiciliary care, manages continence products, and offers training. The HCA will support care homes, healthcare professionals, patients, and carers, often working unsupervised to undertake delegated clinical activities and assessments. The role is part-time (18.75 hours) with a flexible hybrid working model.
Key responsibilities
- Undertake a range of delegated clinical and care led activities.
- Undertake assessments / re-assessments and treatment plans for service users.
- Provide safe, patient centred, effective and evidence-based care.
- Liaise with colleagues, patients/clients and/or external contacts regarding complex messages and patient queries.
- Monitor long term conditions, care and treatment plans as per policy, protocol or guidelines, escalating when required.
- Prioritise own work to meet deadlines in conjunction with colleagues and with guidance.
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of direct patient care in a health or social care setting
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively and efficiently individually and in a team environment
- Experience monitoring long term conditions, care and treatment plans as per policy, protocol or guidelines, escalating to registered staff for support and guidance when required.
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Able to record succinct and accurate information on the patient record both in writing and electronically
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (Adults) or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Undertake assessments / re-assessments and treatment plans for service users as delegated by senior members of the team
- IT skills and use of record system such as EMIS (or similar)
- Experience in community and acute settings
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.
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Sirona care & health CIC
Health Care Assistant
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
The Bladder and Bowel Service is a multi-professional service working across BNSSG. Adults are seen in clinics to diagnose and treat continence or other bladder and bowel problems. A specialist domiciliary service is offered to housebound patients where the Integrated Network Teams requires additional expert guidance.
The Service is responsible for continence management within nursing & care homes and provide training and advice and guidance to a range of healthcare professionals. BABS also manage the contract for continence products on a home delivery system and collaborate with colleagues across BNSSG to work within the urology and colorectal formulary.
Current working hours of the service: Monday-Friday 8:30-16:30. This post is advertised as 18.75 hours which can be worked over 3 days (preferably over Wed-Fri).
BABS has a flexible hybrid working model. Staff are expected to work from an office base for part of their working week and travel across the BNSSG areas as required for patient appointments, meetings, training, service delivery, covering staff absences, and other operational service needs.
The post holder will work well within the team supporting care homes, health care professionals, patients and carers to provide comprehensive assessment, re-assessments
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