Senior Healthcare Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant to join the Emergency Department. It involves working across the Emergency Department and Minor Injury Unit, supporting safe and compassionate patient care. The successful candidate will undertake a wide range of clinical duties, including assessing and investigating patients, and performing enhanced clinical skills like venepuncture and cannulation. There is also an opportunity to train as a Trauma Scribe in a Major Trauma Centre.
Key responsibilities
- Work as a valued member of the multidisciplinary team, providing outstanding care to patients.
- Undertake a wide range of clinical duties, helping to assess, investigate and support patients.
- Provide high-quality patient care and help maintain safe and effective patient flow.
- Perform enhanced clinical skills including venepuncture, cannulation, recording and escalating observations, and 12-lead ECGs.
- Work closely with nursing, medical, and consultant teams to deliver safe and efficient emergency care.
- Undertake specialist training to become a Trauma Scribe, documenting assessments and interventions during trauma calls.
Essential criteria
- One of the following: o Level 3 RQF, SCQF o City and Guilds 3 o NVQ 3 o BTEC National Diploma o Equivalent experience (minimum of 12 months)
- GCSE grade A- C (grade 4 and above) or equivalent in English
- GCSE grade A- C (grade 4 and above) or equivalent in Maths
- o Completion of Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support (that maps to the Apprenticeship Standard for Senior Health Care Support Worker) o Equivalent experience
- At least 12 months experience of working in a health or social care setting
- Experience of working in an hospital/ acute healthcare setting
- Evidence of ability to work as a member of a team
- Good time management skills and prioritising work
- Understands and committed to a caring approach to patients & relatives
- Effective and appropriate communication skills both written and verbal
- IT skills, basic word, Email, keyboard skills
- Able to complete appropriate documentation accurately
- Demonstrate an awareness of healthcare work and policies and procedures
Desirable criteria
- Completion of relevant Band 3 clinical skills training ie. venepuncture and physiological measurements
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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Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Healthcare Support Worker
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
We'relooking forenthusiastic Healthcare Assistants to join our Emergency Department at a pivotal point in its' development.
As part of an exciting departmental reconfiguration,we'reexpanding both our workforce and the way we deliver urgent and emergency care. This is an opportunity to become part of a forward-thinking team as we develop our services, enhance patient flow and create new ways of working across both our Emergency Department and Minor Injury Unit (MIU).
This is a varied and rewarding role where no two shifts are ever the same. Working across the whole department,you'llplay an essential role in supporting the delivery of safe,compassionateand efficient patient care while developing a broad range of clinical skills in one of the busiest and most dynamic areas of the hospital.
Please note, this role does not currently meet the salary requirement for visa sponsorship. From the 9th April 2025, the minimum salary required for a Skilled Worker visa became £25,000 per year. While this role may be offered at a higher point on the pay scale depending on relevant NHS experience, most new starters are appointed at the bottom of the band, which does not meet the salary threshold.
Previous applicants need not apply
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