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Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BTH Town Blackpool Salary £24,937 - £26,598 pro rota Salary period Yearly Closing 16/10/2025 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

A position has become available for a full time Band 3 Health Care Assistant on Ward 38. Ward 38 is a busy 28 bedded Cardiothoracic Ward. Ward 38 provides high quality care for patients having Cardiac and Thoracic surgery, we care for patients who have stepped down from CITU, CCU, A & E, and also elective admissions. This position is a shift working role, internal rotation of shifts is ongoing, you will be expected to work weekends, bank holidays, late finishes.

To provide high quality timely patient care to all patients, linking in with MDT colleagues.

This includes -

Theatre prep, transport patient to investigations, personal care, assist with nutrition and hydration, assisting to provide safe environment and monitoring of high risk patients.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.

As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents –it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.

We recommend that all individuals employed in patient facing roles, or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service should be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Providing personal care to all patients

Assisting with nutrition and hydration where required.

Completing appropriate tasks which assist in the patient safe journey and routine monitoring, fluid balance and observations recorded.

Completion of the Care Certificate.

Emotional/spiritual support for patients

Providing environmental hygiene assistance in line with COAST assessments.

Working with colleagues in the day to day workings of the ward.

• Willing to work towards NHS Care Certificate and completing on successful appointment to the post.
• IT Qualification

• Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
• Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
• Experience of completing patient care records
• Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
• Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit

• Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
• Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
• Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities.
• Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
• Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
• Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
• Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
• Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG’s, simple wound dressings.
• Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA’s, Band 2 HCA’s

• Caring
• Adaptable to the changing needs of the service

Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £25.50, Standard DBS check £25.50 and Enhanced DBS check £53.50.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £16. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessedhere .

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

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.