Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a motivated Healthcare Assistant to join the Integrated Medicine and Emergency Care division at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. You will assist patients with daily tasks like personal hygiene and oral intake, and escort them to procedures. The role involves supporting medical and nursing teams, undertaking clinical observations, and performing venepuncture after training. You will maintain patient records and work flexibly within a multidisciplinary team.
Key responsibilities
- Assist patients with everyday tasks including maintaining good oral intake and personal hygiene.
- Escort patients to various procedures.
- Assist medical and nursing teams in delivering treatment.
- Acquire and perform clinical skills such as undertaking clinical observations and venepuncture.
- Maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
- Support the safe admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.
- Maintain accurate written and/or electronic patient records.
Essential criteria
- Completion of the NHS Care Certificate or relevant experience to vocational qualification level 3.
- Or willing to complete the care certificate within the first 3 months of employment
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's
- Caring
- Adaptable to the changing needs of the service
- Self-motivated
- Enthusiastic
- Approachable
- Diplomatic
- Innovative
- Flexible
- Responsible and accountable
Desirable criteria
- IT qualification
- Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
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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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for inspirational and motivated Health Care Assistants to join our Trust within our Integrated Medicine and Emergency Care division at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.
Please apply early as this vacancy may close early.
There is no sponsorship for this role.
The successful candidates will be supported by both our nursing and medical team and essential training for the role will be provided.
You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and be enthusiastic and passionate about the delivery of high-quality care. As a health care assistant within the team, your role will be assisting our patients with everyday tasks which involve maintaining a good oral intake, assisting with personal hygiene, and escorting patients to various procedures whilst also assisting both our medical and nursing teams to deliver treatment. In addition to providing essential nursing care, there will be a range of clinical skills you are expected to acquire to fulfil the role requirements, such as undertaking clinical observations and venepuncture (taking blood samples). All necessary training for acquiring these skills will be provided by the Trust.
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