Healthcare Assistant Apprenticeship

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Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Malton is seeking a Healthcare Assistant Apprentice to support an inpatient rehabilitation team. This role involves providing holistic care to patients while developing clinical skills in a supportive environment. Candidates must complete a level 2 apprenticeship and demonstrate good communication and teamwork abilities. This position offers a full-time contract with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of working within a care setting or customer facing setting.
• Phlebotomy trained and experienced.
• Competency in taking physical observations.

Responsibilities

• Support the Inpatient team to provide high standard of care for rehabilitation patients.
• Administer holistic care to patients, reporting any changes in care needs.
• Develop and undertake delegated tasks under supervision.

Skills

Good communication and organisational skills

Team player

Ability to carry out instructions given by qualified colleagues

Ability to motivate others

Ability to work without direct supervision

Mandatory training for the management of violence and aggression

Education

Care certificate

Must undertake and complete level 2 Apprenticeship Framework within 18 months

Committed to undertake the Care Certificate course within the first 12 weeks

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Main area HCA level 2 Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (rotational) Job ref 338-7350179-25

Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Malton Hospital Town Malton Salary £24,465 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 10/11/2025 23:59

Healthcare Assistant Apprenticeship

Band 2

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Healthcare Assistant Apprentice to support the existing team in the ongoing development of the community hospital ward and the delivery of excellent care to our patients.

Fitzwilliam ward is a busy inpatient rehabilitation ward which manages mainly older adults with a home first approach. Effective and efficient patient flow is essential. We strive to achieve excellent nursing and therapy care with compassion, and promote positive patient experiences and outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The role involves supporting the Inpatient team to provide a high standard of care for our rehabilitation patients. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of a registered therapist or nurse and will develop and undertake a range of delegated tasks independently. The will ensure that they adhere to Humber Trusts policies and Local policies.

You will administer holistic care to patients in the rehab inpatient setting, identifying and reporting any changes in patient care needs to the nursing or therapy staff.

You will demonstrate flexibility, good communication skills, and ability to work as a team member as well as using your own initiative. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your clinical skills.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Must undertake and complete level 2 Apprenticeship Framework within the recommended timeframe (18 months
• Working knowledge of a care setting or a customer facing setting
• Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Committed to undertake the Care Certificate course within the first 12 weeks of commencing
• Willingness to undertake further academic development
• Care certificate

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working within a care setting or customer facing setting
• Phlebotomy trained and experienced
• Competency in taking physical observations

Skills and Competencies

• Good communication and organisational skills
• A team player
• Ability to carry out instructions given by qualified colleagues
• Ability to motivate others
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Mandatory training for the management of violence and aggression

Our recruitment team have shared their top tips to support you when you are ready to make your application. Please ensure that you read this before starting your application.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

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.