Healthcare Assistant - Blenheim Ward

Transformation Unit; Southend-on-Sea; À distance; GBP 23 000 - 28 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for Healthcare Assistant positions at Blenheim Ward in Southend-on-Sea. Band 2, permanent contracts, 37.5 hours per week with day and night shifts; full- and part-time options.

No prior experience is required; training will be provided. We value caring, kind, and team‑minded people who want to support patients and their families. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• No prior professional experience required; training will be provided.
• Care and kindness are valued; a genuine desire to help patients and families.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Responsabilités

• Washing and dressing patients
• Serving meals and assisting with feeding
• Helping patients to move around
• Talking to patients and their families

Description du poste

Main area HCA Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Day and night shifts, weekdays and weekends.) Job ref (**) 390-NR-DOM-SO-9766

Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Southend Town Southend on Sea Salary £25,272 Per Annum Pro Rata for Part Time Salary period Yearly Closing 25/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 19/11/2026

Healthcare Assistant - Blenheim Ward

Band 2

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the onlyacute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

We are looking for individuals with or without experience to work in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community. Healthcare Assistant opportunities are available in Blenheim Ward.

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.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery 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
• Talking to patients and their families

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

Full time and part time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements. This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.

Working for our organisation

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 populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ics 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 the 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 HCA App.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.

** We look forward to hearing from you and wish you good luck **

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role

Person specification

Experience

• Good literacy demonstrated through minimal spelling and grammatical errors throughout application
• Experience of working with the public
• Must be keen to learn new skills and flexible in the workplace
• Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting
• Working within a team and experience of working in an environment with changing demands and priorities

presentation and compassion

• Must be able to care for all matter of patients and remain professional

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

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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.