Health Care Assistant - Marjory Warren Ward | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in England seeks a caring Health Care Support Worker to join their team. This rewarding role involves providing support to patients in various tasks, such as washing, feeding, and monitoring patient condition. With no previous experience necessary, the Trust values individuals with a genuine desire to help. The role offers training and development opportunities to enhance your career in healthcare.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Access to HCA resources

Qualifications

• Genuine desire to help and support patients and their families.
• Ability to carry out a wide range of tasks to support patient care.
• Keen to support patients with their personal needs.

Responsibilities

• Washing and dressing patients.
• Serving meals and feeding patients.
• Helping patients to move around.
• Making beds.
• Talking to patients and their families.
• Monitoring patient condition.

Skills

Caring and kind

Cheerful and friendly

Good listening and communication skills

Well organised

Able to follow direct instructions

Happy to work in a team

Able to use own initiative

Job description

Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives? We are currently looking for individuals with experience to join our dynamic, caring and friendly NHS family at Marjory Warren Ward. This is a rewarding experience in a fast‑paced area delivering high‑quality care. Marjory Warren Ward provides care for patients in Palliative Care, Haematology and general medicine.

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.

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing 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
• Making beds
• Talking to patients and their families
• Monitoring patient condition

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

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well‑being of our patients, and to 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.

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 population’s health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an IC S 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 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 the HCA App.

Are you looking for an exciting HCA role using your unique qualities? Then we want to hear from you. For full details about this varied and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply. We look forward to your application. Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications. This advert closes on Friday 17 Oct 2025.