Out Of Hours Healthcare Assistant

HCRG Care Group; Dartford; On-site; GBP 22,000; Full time

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Healthcare Assistant for their community nursing team at Livingstone Hospital in Dartford. This role involves providing care in home and clinic settings for various conditions, requiring NVQ Level 3 qualifications. The position offers flexible working arrangements, access to professional development, and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary with pension access

Discounts through My Reward Hub

Flexible working hours

Wage access during emergencies

Online mental and physical wellbeing support

Access to continuous professional development

Innovative work culture with funding for ideas

Qualifications

• Experience in community health setting preferred.
• Strong communication and organizational skills required.
• Confidence in using IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Support and assist in delivering care to patients at home or clinic.
• Work closely with the community nursing team for patient care.
• Engage in preventative care to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Flexibility

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

You will be based in Livingstone Hospital, Dartford as part of our community nursing team whoprovide care to people in their own homes or within a clinic setting.We empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the artnew tabletsfor them to be able to check in from home, write their notes up on the go and allow them to not be trapped in an office base, so they can really enjoy working in their chosen community background! You will work as part of the out of hours team within the community deliver healthcare between 8pm - 8am.

As this is a community based role you will need tohave a UK driving licence and access to a car.

Main Responsibility

Working closely with ourCommunity Nursing Team, as a Healthcare Assistant you will support and assist the senior team members toprovide care to people in their own homes or within a clinic settingfor a widerange ofconditions including diabetes, wound and end of life care.Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission. In this role, you will care for patients in the way thatyou believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing bestpractice, and actively improving the way we work.

The Ideal Candidate

This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 3 or the equivalent appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strongcommunication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensureyou deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of theirhealthcare journey.

In this role, you will need to be able to travel across the patch in a timely manner so a UK driving license is needed and access to a car.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team based atLivingstone Hospital inDartford.You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of£22,000with access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

• Contract Type Permanent - Full or Part Time
• Closing Date 06 July, 2025
• Job Category HCRG - Additional Clinical Services
• Business Unit HCRG - North Kent
• Location Livingstone Community Hospital, Darftord, United Kingdom