Senior Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
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Role summary
Join our busy Gastroenterology and General Medicine ward as an experienced Healthcare Assistant. You will be part of a supportive, values-led team committed to delivering safe, high-quality care. We are looking for hard-working, kind individuals eager to learn and grow. The role offers ongoing training and development opportunities. If you thrive under pressure and take pride in your work, we encourage you to apply.
Essential criteria
- Good general standard of education in Mathematics and English at GCSE level or equivalent to Level 1 Literacy and Numeracy
- Care certificate or equivalent
- Relevent course to role (eg: NVQ level 2)
- Experience and Knowledge
- Current or recent acute hospital HCA experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of high pressure healthcare environment
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Skills, Abilities and Competencies
- Cannulation and/or venepuncture skill
- ECG course
- Demonstrates kindness, compassion and empathy
- Demonstrates punctuality and good time keeping
- Demonstrates fortitude and hard work
- Demonstrates understanding of patient advocacy
- demonstrates further training/self development
- Behavioural Qualities.
- Demonstrate collaboration
- Demonstrates professionalism and integrity
- Able to communicate clearly and compassionately
- Is confident to speak up when things are not right
- Education and Qualification
- Good general standard of education in Mathematics and English at GCSE level or equivalent to Level 1 Literacy and Numeracy
- Care certificate or equivalent
- Relevent course to role (eg: NVQ level 2)
- Experience and Knowledge
- Current or recent acute hospital HCA experience
- Experience of high pressure healthcare environment
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Skills, Abilities and Competencies
- Cannulation and/or venepuncture skill
- ECG course
- Demonstrates kindness, compassion and empathy
- Demonstrates punctuality and good time keeping
- Demonstrates fortitude and hard work
- Demonstrates understanding of patient advocacy
- demonstrates further training/self development
- Behavioural Qualities.
- Demonstrate collaboration
- Demonstrates professionalism and integrity
- Able to communicate clearly and compassionately
- Is confident to speak up when things are not right
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.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 5d
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James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
Band 3 Healthcare Assistant (HCA)
We're currently looking for an experienced Healthcare assistant to join our busy Gastroenterology and General medicine ward.
You'll be part of a supportive, values - led team committed to delivering safe, high quality care. We welcome individuals who are hard working, kind and eager to learn.
Our dedicated education team offers ongoing training and development to help you grow. If you thrive under pressure, take pride in your work, we'd love to hear from you.
Applications are welcome from individuals who may not meet all of the desired experience criteria. In such cases, candidates may be appointed to a band 2 position, with the opportunity for progression upon successful completion of additional skills training,
Visa and Immigration
- Visa sponsorship is unlikely to be offered for this role.
- Where there is a sufficient pool of suitably qualified candidates who do not require sponsorship, the Trust will normally appoint from this group of applicants.
- Sponsorship will generally only be considered in exceptional circumstances where the role is particularly difficult to recruit to and no suitable non-sponsored candidates are available.
- Applicants who require sponsorship are encouraged to
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