Bank Nursing Assistant

Sussexcommunity; Greater London; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking compassionate individuals to join their Bank team at East Surrey Hospital as Nursing Assistants. In this valued role, you will support patients and their families, contributing to meaningful care. The position offers extensive training and apprenticeship opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

Support networks

Focus on health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate for the role.
• Suitability for role evidenced in a supporting statement.
• Evidence of essential experience for role.

Responsibilities

• Support patients and their families daily.
• Assist in daily care and support activities.

Skills

Compassion

Care

Kindness

Communication

Education

Mandatory professional/clinical registration

Job description

We are looking for compassionate and caring individuals to join our Bank team at East Surrey Hospital. We currently have vacancies across the Trust within various divisions.

We have a bespoke training package developed to meet the needs of both those new to care and those with previous experience.

We are committed to your development throughout your career and have apprenticeship pathways that can lead to roles such as Registered Nursing Associate and Registered Nurse.

All we ask is you bring with you your compassion, care, kindness and a can-do approach, which are attributes we know will help you to thrive in our organisation.

The nursing assistant role is a valued role within our teams, when we asked colleagues to describe the impact they have they used the following words:

• Invaluable
• Supportive
• Inspiring
• Irreplaceable

If you want to make a difference to our patients and their families every day and go home feeling proud, valued and knowing you have made an impact on someone's day, we want to hear from you.

We offer you the opportunity to join one of our friendly teams, whereby you will be supported by both your manager and our education colleagues. This will enable you to grow and flourish to reach your full potential.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We are a leading local employer with a diverse workforce of approximately 6,000 staff, dedicated to providing healthcare services to a growing population of around 780,000 individuals.

Our Trust provides both emergency and planned healthcare across East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon - covering towns like Crawley, Horsham, Reigate, and Redhill. Our main hospital, East Surrey in Redhill, offers a full range of acute and specialist services and is also the closest trauma unit to Gatwick Airport.

We also provide outpatient, diagnostic, and planned care services at sites including The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital, Oxted Health Centre, Crawley Hospital, and Horsham Hospital.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we work hard to create an environment where everyone feels valued and supported. Staff benefits include flexible working, support networks, and a strong focus on health and wellbeing to help our teams thrive.

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person Specification

Criteria

• Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
• A complete and accurate application
• Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
• Evidence of essential experience for role
• Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
• Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
• Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
• Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

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.

£11.53 a yearper annum plus high cost allowance