Health Care Assistant - Respiratory
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
Join Ward 22 as a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant, providing high standards of holistic care to acute, weaning, and chronic respiratory patients. Duties include supporting registered nurses with patient care, clinical tasks like personal hygiene, nutritional needs, pressure area care, and wound dressings. You will also undertake observations, venepuncture, cannulation, catheterization, and support patients on high flow oxygen and non-invasive ventilation. The role requires 18 months of healthcare experience and a commitment to compassionate care.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3
- Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2
- Reputation for high standard of patient care
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
- Basic Computer Skills
- Other
- Supportive of colleagues and patients
- Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3
- Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2
- Reputation for high standard of patient care
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
- Basic Computer Skills
- Other
- Supportive of colleagues and patients
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 2d ago · Closes in 3d
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Job summary
Healthcare Assistant band 3- Ward 22
Permanent
Fulltime
Are you interested in joining our excellent team to maintain our high standards of holistic care to acute, weaning and chronic respiratory patients? Do you have the skills we are looking for to ensure we get it right for every patient, every time? Must have health care experience
Ward 22 is looking to recruit motivated Healthcare Assistants in a permanent position. We are a 36 bedded ward who provide support to patients who have respiratory diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pleural effusions, bronchiectasis and many other respiratory diseases.
We are looking for the committed, compassionate and caring people that want to make a positive difference to peoples lives.
You must have 18 months experience and have completed trust training or equivalent to B3 qualification.
\*\*Please be advised that this post will close once sufficient applications have been received, so please apply soon if interested\*\*
Main duties of the job
As Band 3 Health Care assistant duties will include supporting the registered nursing teams in providing patient care, clinical duties such as assisting patients with extended personal hygiene needs, meeting patients nutritional needs, including completing risk assessments and implementing plans of care.
Pressure area care deliver
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