Health Care Assistant

Transformationunitgm; Basildon; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking dedicated individuals for the Health Care Assistant role to provide essential care for the elderly. This full-time position in Basildon offers flexible hours and a supportive work environment, promising career development within the NHS. No prior experience is necessary, as training will be provided to help you grow into this impactful role.

Benefits

NHS salary structure and pension

27 days holiday plus bank holiday allowance

Enhanced pay for unsocial hours

Strong team ethos and support

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Must have good listening and communication skills.
• Experience with the public is a plus.
• Willingness to learn new skills.

Responsibilities

• Supporting nursing teams in patient care.
• Assisting with daily tasks such as washing and dressing.
• Serving meals and providing companionship.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Job description

Main area Care of the Elderly Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (must be flexible - can work days and nights) Job ref 390-DoM-BA-1197

Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Basildon Town Basildon Salary £24,465 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2025 23:59

Health Care Assistant

Band 2

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the onlyacute 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

Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives?

We are looking for individuals with or without experience to work in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community. Healthcare Support Worker opportunities are available at our Basildon site.

No experience? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. To us, it is more important that you are a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Health Care Support Worker.

Right from the time you join us, you will have access to learning, development and training opportunities. As you progress in your NHS career you will acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to provide safe and compassionate patient care.

Mid and South Essex is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce.

The Healthcare Support Worker role can also lead to a range of career opportunities. With the right support, those who want to can undertake the necessary training to become our future nurses, nursing associates and midwives.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

· Examples of what you may do as part of your role

· Washing and dressing patients

· Serving meals and feeding patients

· Helping patients to move around

· Talking to patients and their families

· Skills and personal attributes needed

· Caring and kind

· Cheerful and friendly

· Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting

· Able to follow direct instructions

· Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative

· Have good listening and communication skills

· Be well organised

Full time and part time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements. This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.

** We look forward to hearing from you and wish you good luck **

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What we Offer:

- Range of opportunities for flexible working

- Strong team ethos

- NHS salary structure and pension

- 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked

- Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Wide range of LGBTI+ initiatives

- Health service discounts and online benefits

- Health and wellbeing support

- Discounts on public transport

- Disability Confident Reasonable adjustment

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 ICS 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.

Person specification

Experience

• Good literacy demonstrated through minimal spelling and grammatical errors throughout application
• Experience of working with the public
• Must be keen to learn new skills and flexible in the workplace
• Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting
• Working within a team and experience of working in an environment with changing demands and priorities

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 doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.