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Posting date: 28 March 2025
Salary: £24,071.00 to £25,674.00 per year
Additional salary information: £24071.00 – £25674.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 April 2025
Location: Newark, NG24 4DE
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: C9214-25-0248

Health Care Assistant Job Summary

Are you a Health Care Assistant who is passionate about healthcare and making a real difference in people’s lives? Join our dynamic team at Newark Hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre, an essential part of the esteemed Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

As a Clinical Support Worker, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with skilled professionals in a multi-disciplinary environment, delivering high-quality care to a diverse range of patients. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and contribute to the well-being of the local community.

You’ll play a key role in providing exceptional support to our clinical teams, ensuring that patients receive the best care possible during their time of need. This role is both challenging and rewarding, offering the chance to make a real impact in the healthcare field.

 

Health Care Assistant Main Duties

  • To provide direct patient care as a Band 3 Clinical Support Worker under the guidance of the Medical and Nursing team.
  • Main roles involve recording observations, ECG recording, Venopuncture, Cannulation, running blood tests.
  • Managing patients hygiene needs, patient escort, chaperone and plaster application with some wound management.
  • Required to cover some Reception roles if needed as well as stock monitoring and ordering as well as some departmental housekeeping.

 

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.

 

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read attached job description and person specification document.

 

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills written and oral.
  • Good time management skills.
  • Good customer care skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good standard of general education. English language GCSE Grade C or above.
  • NVQ level 3 or working towards’

Desirable

  • SFH Care Certificate

Other factors

Essential

  • Team player
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexible
  • Enthusiastic
  • Ability to work under pressure

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in a hospital setting.
  • Evidence of working with the public.

Contractual

Essential

  • Full or part-time hours working a variety of shifts over a seven day period
  • Reception cover

Further Training

Desirable

  • Phlebotomy and cannulation
  • ECG recording
  • Catheterisation
  • Point of Care testing
  • Wound management
  • Plaster Application

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.