Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This Healthcare Assistant role at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust offers a pathway into a meaningful NHS career, including apprenticeship routes to become a Nursing Associate or Registered Nurse. You will provide high-quality patient care under supervision, focusing on dignity, compassion, and respect. The role requires full-time commitment, working on a rota covering days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays. No previous healthcare experience is necessary, but strong communication skills and a compassionate approach are essential.
Key responsibilities
- Always acting in the patients best interests
- Supporting patients with dignity, compassion and respect
- Providing personalised care to people from all backgrounds
- Noticing and reporting any changes in a patients condition
- Learning and performing clinical skills once trained, such as venepuncture and cannulation
- Offering enhanced support to patients who need closer supervision
- Guiding and supporting junior or less experienced colleagues
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively
- Demonstrates the ability to place the patient at the centre of care
- Information technology literate
- Able to evidence a general level of education
Desirable criteria
- Previous care experience
- Care Certificate
- QCF level 3 in Health or Health and Social Care
- TLevel in Health
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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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Start Your NHS Career With Us -- Your Future Begins at Royal Berkshire Hospital
If you're passionate about helping others and ready to take your first step into a meaningful, long-term career, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust wants to hear from you. We're looking for enthusiastic, caring and motivated individuals to join us as Healthcare Assistants -- and to grow with us through our exceptional apprenticeship pathways.
This is more than a job. It's your opportunity to gain highly valued NHS experience, develop clinical skills, and build a career you can be proud of. Our Healthcare Assistants can go on to become Nursing Associates and Registered Nurses through our apprenticeship programmes -your journey could start right here.
You must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.
Main duties of the job
Why begin your career with us
- A supportive environment where your learning and development truly matter
- Opportunities to apply for apprenticeship routes after probation, including:
**The Nursing Associate Apprenticeship and the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship
- Structured progression for those who want to build a long-term future in healthcare
- Hands-on experien
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