Healthcare Assistant – Specialist leg Ulcer Service

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

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Harlow is looking for a Healthcare Assistant for the Specialist Leg Ulcer Service. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing patient care in both clinic and home settings, requiring practical experience and a valid driving license. This role offers a salary ranging from £24,937 to £26,598 per year, alongside an inclusive workplace and opportunities for professional development, aimed at enhancing skills and experience in a supportive environment.

Benefits

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Excellent pension up to 14.5%

Staff discounts including NHS offers

Flexible working arrangements

£8K relocation package

Qualifications

• Experience in a community or leg ulcer clinic setting is required.
• Candidate must have practical experience in providing patient care.
• Car driver with access to a vehicle is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Visit patients in clinic and home settings, providing care and support.
• Assist team in health education and promotion activities.
• Manage patient bookings and ensure Health and Safety compliance.

Skills

Practical experience in a care setting

Car driver with access to a car

Experience working in a community/clinic setting

Education

NVQ Level 3 in care

Completed care certificate or commitment to complete within the first 6 months of employment

Job description

Healthcare Assistant – Specialist leg Ulcer Service

The closing date is 01 February 2026

The post holder will work as part of a Leg Ulcer team which cares for people with leg ulceration, mainly in clinic settings across West Essex but also in their homes on occasions. The Health Care Assistant will contribute in a variety of activities of patient care to the level, experience and assessed competence he/she has acquired.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all of our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately your application form will be rejected from the process.

Please note this vacancy requires a face to face interview with the Recruiting Manager. Applicants that are unable to attend a face to face interview need not apply.

Main duties of the job

• Visit patients in a clinic environment or in their own homes and provide appropriate care and support as defined in the Care Plan, including taking observations, exercise, activity and treatment programs, acting on own initiative with supervision available when required.
• Be involved, under the direction of the Clinical Lead/ leg ulcer team in health education and health promotion activities to promote the wellbeing of the patient. This may include advice regarding skin care, diet, exercise, leg elevation and hosiery application using specific aids.
• To answer patient\'s and other professional telephone / email queries, addressing concerns or passing on as appropriate to team members
• Be involved in booking patients into clinic if required.
• Be always aware of Health and Safety, ensuring that equipment is well maintained in a safe and hygienic way e.g., patient handling equipment.
• Take an active role in the running of leg ulcer clinics through close working with the leg ulcer team.
• Assist trained staff in leg ulcer clinics by preparing the clinic environment prior to the patients\' arrival and clearing away at the end of each clinic session. Tasks to include cleaning all couches, work surfaces and buckets, as well as preparing the dressing trolleys, in accordance with policy and Standard Operating Procedure.

About us

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff\'s hard work and dedication.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years\' service.
• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Job responsibilities

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.

To support this one workforce model the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our 5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE ICS Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.

Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.

Further information will be provided post interview.

This will be followed by an additional 5 day (Monday to Friday) EPUT corporate / mandatory training welcome. (EPUT Welcome will be varied between face to face and virtual delivery).

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in care or relevant community/leg ulcer clinic experience.
• Completed care certificate or commitment to complete within the first 6 months of employment

Skills/Experience

• Practical experience in a care setting.
• Car driver. Access to car at all times.
• Experience working in a community/clinic setting.

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.

Employer name

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum, pro rata plus 5% High Cost Allowance