Emergency Department Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an Emergency Department Assistant at Whittington Hospital, working full-time on a permanent contract. You will provide high-level, evidence-based care to patients in a busy ED setting, performing clinical duties without direct supervision. The position involves rotating through different areas of the department, including minor injury, majors, and assessment, with opportunities for training in specialist techniques. You will be part of a supportive team, contributing to patient safety and positive experiences.
Essential criteria
- Maths and English Level 1
- Care Certificate with completed practical workbook
- Experience of working in team
- Demonstrable experience of working in a hospital setting
Desirable criteria
- Previous Emergency Department experience
- Knowledge & Skills
- Communicate effectively in writing
- Able to record routine observations
- Demonstrates compassion for patients
- Able to alert trained staff of change in patients' condition
- Demonstrates understanding of importance of maintaining privacy and dignity
- Demonstrates attention to detail, in preparation to carry out tasks
- Ability to record ECG
- Able to support and reassure patients/carers in distress
- Intravenous Cannulation
- Phlebotomy
- Plastering skills
- Other factors
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Qualifications / Training
- Maths and English Level 1
- Care Certificate with completed practical workbook
- Experience of working in team
- Demonstrable experience of working in a hospital setting
- Previous Emergency Department experience
- Knowledge & Skills
- Communicate effectively in writing
- Able to record routine observations
- Demonstrates compassion for patients
- Able to alert trained staff of change in patients' condition
- Demonstrates understanding of importance of maintaining privacy and dignity
- Demonstrates attention to detail, in preparation to carry out tasks
- Ability to record ECG
- Able to support and reassure patients/carers in distress
- Intravenous Cannulation
- Phlebotomy
- Plastering skills
- Other factors
- Ability to work well under pressure
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £31,554 – £33,270 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Emergency Department Assistant
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
Emergency Department Assistant. Band 3 Contract : Permanent. Full-Time 37.5 hours per week. The Whittington Emergency Department (ED) serves the diverse local community of North London in and around Archway and Highgate. We are a busy but very friendly central London ED, seeing more than 100,000 patients in the last year and our recent CQC inspection praised the training and development opportunities for staff. We provide high quality emergency care and maintain an above average performance for initial assessment, ambulance handovers and four-hour performance.
We have very strong nursing leadership and can offer support from our substantial senior team, which includes our ED Matrons who provide a clinical support rota as well as Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) and senior clinical nurse leaders who provide support on a shift-by-shift basis. We also have a dedicated and innovative practice development nurse, devoted purely to the development of the team of nurses and ED Assistants.
Main duties of the job
You will be given the opportunity to rotate through the department including developing your skills in minor injury in our Urgent Treatment Centre with support of the ENPs, Majors where we assess the majority of ambulance patients, th
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