Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This advert explicitly states that sponsorship is not offered.
The source advert contains explicit wording ruling out sponsorship for this specific role. Consider other live roles at the same band from sponsorship-friendly trusts.
Role summary
A Healthcare Assistant helps patients with their daily needs, ensuring comfort, safety, dignity, and respect. This involves direct patient care, such as assisting with personal care, eating, drinking, and mobility, as well as supporting emotional and social needs. The role also includes assisting nurses with clinical procedures, maintaining accurate patient records, and ensuring a clean and well-stocked environment. Adherence to health and safety and infection control procedures is essential.
Essential criteria
- Willingness & ability to undertake NVQ Level 3 in care if required
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in care
- Experience of working within a team
- Experience as a Healthcare Assistant
- SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding.
- Ability to perform ECGs
- Willingness & ability to undertake NVQ Level 3 in care if required
- NVQ Level 3 in care
- Experience of working within a team
- Experience as a Healthcare Assistant
- SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding.
- Ability to perform ECGs
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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Job summary
A Healthcare Assistant is responsible for helping patients with their daily needs whilst ensuring they are comfortable, safe and treated with dignity and respect. The role involves both direct patient care and supporting the wider team.
Please note this role will not be eligible for sponsorship as it doesn't meet the minimum salary requirements for a skilled worker visa, therefore you must have appropriate right to work in the UK or your application will not be progressed to the next stage of Recruitment.
Main duties of the job
Assisting patients with personal care, including washing, dressing and toileting.
Helping patients with eating, drinking and mobility.
Supporting patients with emotional and social needs.
Assisting nurses and other healthcare professional with patient care and clinical procedures.
Maintaining accurate patient records.
Reporting and changes in patients condition.
Keeping patient areas clean, tidy and well stocked.
Following infection prevention and control procedures.
Promoting dignity, privacy and independence.
Adhering to health and safety policies and safeguarding procedures.
About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospital provide health care services across the Fylde Coast, Lancashire and South Cumbria area that is home to 1.6 million people.
A range of hospital services is provided to the 352,000 people living on the Fyld
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