HealthCare Assistant /Therapy Assistant Islington Urgent Response

NEP Cloud; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust is looking for a HealthCare Assistant/Therapy Assistant in Islington to support urgent care services. Responsibilities include patient assessment, care implementation, and liaising with multidisciplinary teams. This is a part-time contract position with a salary based on NHS Band 3 standards.

Qualifications

• Previous work experience relevant in statutory or voluntary sector.
• Minimum 1 year in caring for patients or clients.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the assessment of care needs at homes.
• Identify changes in patient conditions and report promptly.

Skills

Ability to work independently

Initiative

Education

NVQ Level 3 in a related subject

Job description

Main area Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Fixed term: 9 months (FTC until 31st of March 2026) Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-3149

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Hornsey Rise Health Centre Town London Salary £30,039 - £31,088 pro-rata per annum including HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 27/06/2025 23:59

HealthCare Assistant /Therapy Assistant Islington Urgent Response

NHS AfC: Band 3

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

The post holder will work in the Islington Rapid Response and Virtual Ward (RRVW) team which is part of the wider multi-agency Islington Urgent Care Response service which supports hospital discharges and admission avoidance.

RRVW is co-located and integrated with therapy and adult social services colleagues and aims to respond to patient referrals in the community within 2 hours to prevent admission to hospital.

The post holder will primarily be working in Islington borough but may be required to see patients in other NCL boroughs.

Main duties of the job

• Participate in the assessment of care needs and the implementation of programmes of care in partnership with patients/carers in their own homes
• Identify changes in patients conditions and, within their capabilities, recognise where significant changes in the care plan are required and report these back to the senior nurse on duty in a prompt and timely manner.
• Liaise effectively with other nursing and multi professional team members within the scope of the health care Assistant role and report back to the nurse in charge.
• Provide administrative support to the team.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Demonstrate a high standard of care within Whittington Health and national quality assurance frameworks.
• Always adhere to Whittington Health/UCLH policies and procedures.
• Organise own workload and establish priorities (and that of other unregistered nurses where appropriate). In collaboration with line manager/nurse in charge
• Liaise effectively with members the wider multidisciplinary team within the scope of the Health care Assistant role, reporting back to the nurse in charge as appropriate.
• Initiate onwards referrals to other agencies, including Social Services, where appropriate
• Participate in the orientation of new staff.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in a related subject or equivalent experience
• Previous work experience relevant to the post in the statutory or voluntary sector

Skills

• Proven ability to work independently, using own initiative, seeking guidance as required.
• Proven ability to work independently, using own initiative, seeking guidance as required.

Knowledge

• Minimum 1 years experience in caring for patients or clients
• Demonstrates and understanding of some of the challenges of working with patients with long term and acute conditions

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

• Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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.