Healthcare Assistant

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Job summary

A health care organization in Basildon is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join their Surgical Referral Unit. This role involves providing basic patient care, supporting qualified staff, and promoting respect for patient beliefs. Candidates should possess GCSE Math and English, as well as demonstrable literacy and previous healthcare experience. This position offers a competitive salary of £24,937 per annum, with opportunities for development through the HCA Academy.

Benefits

Access to HCA Academy resources

Additional support and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrated good literacy with minimal errors.
• Experience working in a health care setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide basic patient care, including personal hygiene.
• Undertake patient moving and handling correctly.
• Obtain, test and record specimens from patients.
• Respond appropriately to emergencies.

Skills

Good literacy

Previous experience in healthcare

Education

GCSE Math and English

Job description

Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BASILDON HOSPITAL Town BASILDON Salary £24,937 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59

Band 3

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly Surgical Referral Unit.

In this role, you’ll:

• Work closely with our ward team, building strong and positive relationships.
• Support qualified staff in providing safe, high-quality clinical care.
• Promote equality and respect for every patient’s beliefs and identity.
• Communicate effectively, ensuring important information reaches the right people.
• Offer comfort and guidance to patients and relatives as they adjust to life changes caused by illness or injury.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

No VISA sponsorship available for this role

Main duties of the job

• Basic patient care - this could include personal hygiene.
• Undertake patient moving and handling using a safe and correct procedure.
• Obtaining, testing and recording specimens from the patient.
• Responding appropriately to emergency situations

Working for our organisation

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an IIS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a ‘one workforce’ cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Person specification

Qualifications

• GCSE Math and English or English

Knowledge and Experience

• Good literacy demonstrated through minimal spelling and grammatical errors through applications
• Previous experience of working in health care setting

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that didn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.