Healthcare Assistant | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Virginia; On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting Healthcare Support Workers for ward 5A, a General Medicine ward at Calderdale Royal Hospital. The role supports qualified nursing staff with patient care within defined competence and supervision.

You will work using your initiative within the post's level of competence. Key responsibilities include maintaining patient dignity, confidentiality, and collaborating with the care team, while adhering to Trust policies on infection

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate dignity and respect to patients, visitors and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Carry out duties in a professional, compassionate and courteous manner.
• Attend to hygiene needs of patients including bathing, washing, bed bathing, dressing and bedmaking.

Job description

Healthcare Assistant | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

We are looking to recruit Healthcare Support Workers for ward 5A a General Medicine ward at Calderdale Royal Hospital.

This is a vital role to assist qualified nursing staff with direct and indirect patient care within clearly defined limits and attainment of defined competence. Successful candidate will work without constant direct supervision using initiative within the level of competence for the post.

Main Tasks

• At all times treat patients, visitors and colleagues with dignity and respect, exercising discretion and behaving in a manner consistent with the CHFT standards of behaviour.
• To maintain confidentiality in all aspects of work
• Work in a collaborative and co-operative manner with other members of the care team.
• To maintain Trust policy regarding Control of Infections
• To undertake training re Manual Handling and adhere to principals taught
• To follow Health and Safety policies relevant to working environment and attend mandatory updates in accordance with Trust policy
• Undertake duties that you have received appropriate training for and have been deemed competent
• To adhere to Trust policies and procedures
• To establish and maintain effective communication and relationships with multi-disciplinary team
• Contribute to the development of clinical area, through contribution of new ideas to improve patient care/experience

Clinical Duties

• Carry out all duties in a professional, compassionate and courteous manner. To ensure that no action or omission on your part is detrimental to the condition, safety, wellbeing and interest of the patients.
• To attend to the hygiene needs of patients by assisting with:
  • Bathing in bathroom
  • Washing at bedside
  • Bed bathing
  • Dressing of patients
  • Bedmaking, e.g. routine, theatre beds, discharge beds
  • meeting nutritional needs

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS– yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Please see the job description and person specification below for full details about the role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Nov 2026