Healthcare Assistant

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Disability Confident employer

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting Health Care Assistants (NHS Band 3) to join our Medicine, Emergency Care and Surgical divisions at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Rotational shifts across days, nights and weekends with full/part-time options and comprehensive training are provided.

The successful candidates will work under the supervision of Registered Nurses and be supported with essential training, including caring for patients, observation skills, venipuncture and

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Maintain your own skills and competencies required to undertake the role.
• Assist the Registered Nurse in the delivery of care to a designated patient group.
• Determine the comfort of patients by talking and listening and building rapport.
• Assist in personal hygiene of patients and mobility.
• Record patient information accurately (written/electronic).
• Assist in feeding and ensuring adequate fluid intake; complete charts where necessary.
• Support safe admissions, transfers and discharges, escalating when needed.

Skills

Excellent communication

Clinical observations

Venipuncture

Education

Care certificate

IT qualification

Job description

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Main area Healthcare Assistant Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

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fully rotational across days, nights, weekends, shifts Job ref 382-COR49-26

Site Blackpool Victoria Hospital Town Blackpool Salary £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/09/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for inspirational and motivated Health Care Assistants to join our Trust within our Medicine and Emergency Care Division and Surgical Division at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

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, through our induction and training program, including enrolment in the Care Certificate qualification.

Working alongside skilled health professionals who work within this multidisciplinary team, the departments provide a fantastic place to learn and for you to develop your skills.

The Trust DOES NOT provide sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a number of caring and enthusiastic healthcare assistants to join various wards across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

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 effectivey 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 have 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.

The Trust supports continuous development through clinical supervision, training, and appraisal, with ongoing career development opportunities available once in post such as Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard.

Working for our organisation

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties:

• Responsible for the maintenance of your own skills and competencies required to undertake the role.
• Assist the Registered nurse (RN) in the delivery of care to a designated patient group, demonstrating an ability to prioritise such care.
• Determine the comfort of patients by talking and listening to them and building up a rapport.
• Assist in providing personal hygiene of patients who are unable to do so themselves, including washing, bathing and assistance with using the toilet.
• Assessing patients' health safety and wellbeing, escalating to appropriate colleagues if required
• Assist in feeding/ giving drinks to patients who are unable to do so for themselves and complete food and fluid charts where necessary.
• Ensure patient dignity supporting patients with tact, empathy, and persuasion.
• Ensure that all care provided by yourself is documented appropriately.
• Report any changes in patient condition to the RN.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

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

Experience

• Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
• Experience with manual handling of patients, 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 & 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.
• Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
• Ability to follow Trust policy's 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

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £25.50, Standard DBS check £25.50 and Enhanced DBS check £53.50.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £16. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Monica Hodgkinson Job title Nursing and AHP Recruitment and Retention Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01253 300000 Additional information please use email address as main contact with queries