Health Care Assistant

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Chelmsford is seeking a Health Care Assistant to support nursing teams in providing compassionate care to patients. This role involves tasks such as assisting with personal hygiene, serving meals, and supporting patient mobility. Both full-time and part-time positions are available, with a commitment to training and career development. This is a great opportunity for those wanting to make a meaningful difference in their community. Competitive NHS salary with additional benefits included.

Benefits

NHS salary structure and pension

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Health service discounts and online benefits

Health and wellbeing support

Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Qualifications

• Experience of working with the public.
• Must be keen to learn new skills and flexible in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• Provide valuable support to Nursing and Midwifery teams.
• Wash and dress patients.
• Serve meals and feed patients.
• Assist patients with mobility.
• Communicate with patients and their families.

Skills

Caring and kind

Good listening and communication skills

Well organized

Cheerful and friendly

Able to follow direct instructions

Keen to support patients with personal needs

Able to use own initiative

Job description

Health Care Assistant

The closing date is 21 December 2025

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 have become available in our ENT and MAX FAX ward, Billericay.

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.

About us

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.

Job 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 adjustments

Please see the attached JD for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications & 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

Experience

• Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting
• Working within a team and experience of working in an environment with changing demands and priorities

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 name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)