Healthcare Assistant

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust invites applications for a Community Healthcare Assistant to support patients in their own homes. The North West Community Nursing team will guide your role, traveling to patients and providing compassionate, quality care across a seven-day service.

The post requires a driving licence and emphasizes communication and safeguarding, with in-house development for extended skills such as insulin administration and wound care.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Healthcare Assistant or equivalent is essential.
• Community-based clinical experience desirable; training provided.
• Willing to undertake in-house development program for extended skills (insulin, injections, wound care).

Responsibilities

• Provide care to patients in their own homes.
• Travel to patient locations as required by the organisation.
• Support seven days of service across the community nursing team.

Skills

Communication skills

Home care

Driving licence

Patient care

Education

Education including Maths and English

Vocational qualification level 3

Care Certificate

Job description

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Site Cambrian Medical Centre Town Oswestry Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum/pro rata (NHS 25/26 Pay Award as of August 2025) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/09/2026 23:59

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Job overview

Please note that this job does not meet the salary requirements for work visa sponsorship due to being part-time and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

North West Community Nursing team are recruiting to the role of an Community Healthcare Assistant.

We are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual with good communication skills and a passion for caring for patients in their own homes.

We are a busy team working across 7 days to provide excellent care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

Experience working as a Healthcare Assistant and a qualification in Healthcare would be essential for this post. Experience of clinical work in the community is desirable, but training will be offered to the successful applicant.

There is an expectation that the successful candidate will undertake our in-house development program for extended skills. This will involve insulin administration, injections and wound care.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. A full clean driving licence is required for this post and use of your own vehicle.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Good general level of education (to include Maths and English)


• Equivalent relevant experience to vocational qualification level 3


• Completion of the Care Certificate

Experience

• Awareness of the role of the Healthcare Support Worker

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of the role of the health care assistant role in context, including phlebotomy and wound care, and other clinical skills relevant to role


• Awareness of accountability issues e.g. confidentiality


• Knowledge of situations and circumstances that can impact on patient safety and demonstrate understanding of how the healthcare support worker contributes to maintaining patient safety


• Good interpersonal skills (written and oral)


• The ability to communicate effectively with patients and staff both written and orally and demonstrate a level of English language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes


• Ability to remain calm when faced with a potentially difficult situation

Other

• Ability to meet the travel needs of the post. (The post holder will be required to travel to any location as required by the organisation). Within community nursing teams, the post holder will be required to travel to patients homes

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.