| Posting date: | 18 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,240.00 to £27,928.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26240.00 – £27928.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 September 2025 |
| Location: | Hertford., SG13 7HL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9367-25-0708 |
Health Care Assistant Job overview
We are seeking to recruit Band 3 Health Care Assistants that are highly-motivated with an excellent work ethos to join our friendly team. The successful candidate will be based at Seward Lodge in Hertford, caring for older adults who have a diagnosis of Dementia. Previous experience in a health care setting and good computer skills essential. This is the perfect opportunity for those who are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of an outstanding team to make a difference to our patients’ health care.
Benefits we offer:
- A coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity
- Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
- Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike -saving on tax and insurance included
- Wellbeing activities – from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing
- Gym discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd.
- Refer a friend to work for the Trust and receive up to £500!(A payment of £250 will be made when the applicant commences employment with us and a further payment of £250 will be made once they hit 6 months continuous service with us, terms and conditions apply)
Health Care Assistant Main Duties
The Health Care Assistant (Band 3) is the second step on a skills escalator of unregistered practitioners. This level of practitioner will have extensive experience at HCA Band 2/3 with an appreciation and knowledge of unit procedures, competency based clinical observations, is able to organise day to day tasks and activities based on an agreed and allocated work plan.
This role will work with more experienced Registered and Unregistered practitioners providing support to both health and social care professionals.The Health Care Assistant role at this level, will be allocated and agreed via plans of care, assessed and evaluated by a registered nurse. They will implement, deliver care under the guidance of registered practitioners supported by a monitored process of on-going supervision and support. This role will be expected to work with ongoing levels of support and supervision as determined via a monitored supervisory process and supported by educational development via the NVQ process.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers – everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.