Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
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Role summary
A full-time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant position is available on Ward 38, a busy 28-bedded mixed sex Cardiothoracic Ward. The role involves providing high-quality patient care, assisting with daily tasks like personal hygiene and oral intake, and supporting medical and nursing teams. You will acquire clinical skills such as observations and venepuncture, with all necessary training provided. The role requires effective communication and a commitment to high-quality care, working shifts including weekends and bank holidays.
Key responsibilities
- Provide high quality timely patient care to all patients, linking in with MDT colleagues.
- Assist with theatre prep, transport patients to investigations, and provide personal care.
- Assist with nutrition and hydration, and help provide a safe environment and monitoring of high-risk patients.
- Maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, following Trust's Policies and Procedures.
- Support the safe admission, transfer and discharges of patients and be pro-active in timely support.
- Maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met.
Essential criteria
- Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.
- 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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Job summary
A position has become available for a full time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant on Ward 38. Ward 38 is a busy 28 bedded mixed sex Cardiothoracic Ward. Ward 38 provides high quality care for patients having Cardiac and Thoracic surgery, we care for patients who have stepped down from CITU, CCU, A & E, and also elective admissions. This position is a shift working role, internal rotation of shifts is ongoing, you will be expected to work weekends, bank holidays, late finishes.
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
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