Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Lancashire is seeking a full-time Healthcare Assistant for a busy cardiology ward. The role involves providing high-quality care and assisting patients with daily tasks. Candidates must possess a Care Certificate or be willing to work towards it. This position also requires effective communication and teamwork skills, with ongoing training provided to enhance clinical abilities.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
• Experience with manual handling using moving aids.
• Ability to update patient records accurately.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality patient care while linking with multidisciplinary team.
• Assist with personal care and monitoring of high-risk patients.
• Maintain accurate written and electronic records.

Skills

Communication skills

Ability to work as part of a team

Personal care knowledge

Ability to carry out routine duties

Education

Care certificate

Job description

Go back Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Assistant

The closing date is 20 November 2025

A position has become available for a full time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant on Ward 39. Ward 39 is a busy 25 bedded mixed sex Cardiology/ Cardiothoracic Ward. Ward 39 provides high quality care for patients having Cardiac and Thoracic surgery, we care for patients who have stepped down from CITU, CCU, A & E, and also elective admissions. This position is a shift working role, internal rotation of shifts is ongoing, you will be expected to work weekends, bank holidays, late finishes.

The successful candidates will be supported by both our nursing and medical team and essential training for the role will be provided.

You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and be enthusiastic and passionate about the delivery of high-quality care. As a health care assistant within the team, your role will be assisting our patients with everyday tasks which involve maintaining a good oral intake, assisting with personal hygiene, and escorting patients to various procedures whilst also assisting both our medical and nursing teams to deliver treatment. In addition to providing essential nursing care, there will be a range of clinical skills you are expected to acquire to fulfil the role requirements, such as undertaking clinical observations and venepuncture (taking blood samples). All necessary training for acquiring these skills will be provided by the Trust.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality timely patient care to all patients, linking in with MDT colleagues.

Theatre prep, transport patient to investigations, personal care, assist with nutrition and hydration, assisting to provide safe environment and monitoring of high risk patients.

You need to have excellent communication skills, as our patients are often complex and require you to be patient and understanding.You will be required to liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient needs are identified and communicated effectively so that safe decisions are made around patient care.

You will be expected to maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and be personally responsible for your actions following the Trust's Policies and Procedures. You will be required to support the safe admission, transfer and discharges of patients and be pro-active in the timely support provided to patients at all times.

You will be expected to maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met.

You will be encouraged and supported to gain new skills and to be actively involved in change improvement and being a champion for an area of care that you feel interested in. You should also be committed to and have evidence of continuing professional development.

You will need to be prepared to work flexibly to the needs of the service.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applicants apply.

About us

Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire.

We are proud of the care we strive to provide, and we want to continue to build on this by the addition of passionate, kind and caring people to our teams. Using the latest pathways, evidence-based care and, using all the community therapy support networks available to us to give every patient the best opportunity to remain independent, safe and supported. We are looking for people who strongly align with our Trust values and share common goals.

As a Trust we are committed to:

• Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
• Real equality of opportunity.
• Continuous learning and development for staff.
• Achieving a work life balance

We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.

The Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the Job Description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.

Please also read the attached Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant criteria for the post.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

• Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.

Experience

• Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
• Experience with manual handling of using moving aids
• Experience of completing patient care records
• Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
• Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit

Skills, ability and knowledge

• Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
• Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
• Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
• Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
• Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
• Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
• Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
• Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
• Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's

Personal Qualities

• Caring, Adaptable to the changing needs of the service, Self-motivated, Enthusiastic, Approachable, Diplomatic, Innovative, Flexible, Responsible and accountable

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.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearPer annum (pro rata for part time)