Job summary
- Main area
- Health Care Assistant
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-7066568
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- 拢29,029 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Healthcare Support Worker Band 2 progression to band 3
Band 2
Covid-19 Vaccination听
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support 听staff to get 听COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.听
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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.
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Job overview
Health Care Support Worker Band 2 progression to band 3听 (Full or Part Time) - Various departments across Whittington Health - Hospital Site
听We are looking for enthusiastic, kind and compassionate, motivated individuals to join our hospital teams in delivering a high standard of patient-centred care on our dynamic and friendly units.
As important and vital members of our team, we know that you are often the first person our patients talk with and trust.
We are keen to support you in this role and help you develop.听Applicants will be supported on a training programme and paid at a Band 2 until their Band 3 competencies are signed off at which point you will be uplifted to a Band 3. You will be supported to achieve this by the HCSW Development team.
听You will have the opportunity to undertake the Care Certificate, and we have already had a significant number of candidates who have successfully gained their Care Certificate whilst working with us.
If you are 18 or above and demonstrate empathy and compassion and share our ethos of maintaining patients鈥 self-respect and dignity, we would be delighted to hear from you.听听
If you are shortlisted, our recruitment and selection process for all candidates is as follows:
听You will be invited to undertake a literacy and numeracy test. If you are successful in passing our literacy and numeracy test you will be invited for interview. Please note your interview will be on a different day from the literacy and numeracy test
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Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for full details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, you will find a brief summary of the job description听 in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
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Post at Band 2 are unfortunately not eligible for a Certificate of Sponsorship
The minimum hours we can support is 23.0hrs
Closing Date: 24th March 2025.听听
This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications听
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.听 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.听 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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Values
The post holder will uphold and display Trust values of Innovation, Compassion, Accountable, Respect, Excellence and Equity
Communication听
鈥⑻ Communicate clearly, effectively, and appropriately with the multidisciplinary team, patients, and their family/visitors/carers
鈥⑻ Provide basic information to patients, family/visitors/carers, and colleagues.
鈥⑻ Aware of the importance of accurate documentation and contribute to reports of patients鈥 activity and progress.
Education and professional development
鈥⑻ Understand own level of responsibility and accountability in relation to trained staff.
鈥⑻ Identify own learning needs and produce a personal development plan in conjunction with the ward sister/charge nurse as part of your annual appraisal
鈥⑻ Take part in reflection and appropriate learning from practice, in order to maintain and develop competence and performance.
Risk and governance management
鈥⑻ Report any issues at work that may put health, safety, and security at risk.
鈥⑻ Summon immediate help for any emergency and take appropriate action to contain it
鈥⑻ Understand the principles and practice of Infection Control
Service development
鈥⑻ Ensure a welcoming, caring, and safe environment is provided for the patient and their family/visitors/carers.
鈥⑻ Aware of and maintains required standard of care.
鈥⑻ Ensure that patient areas are kept clean and tidy.
鈥⑻ Comply with Trust/local policies and procedures.
Professional and clinical responsibilities
路听听听听听听听听听Assist the patient to be as comfortable as possible, i.e., help with moving and positioning the patient, or mobilising the patient using appropriate equipment and handling techniques
路听听听听听听听听听Involve the patient in shared decision-making and obtain their consent before undertaking nursing procedures.
路听听听听听听听听听Support and encourage the patient to meet their own health and wellbeing needs.
Information management听
鈥⑻ Able to use IT (Information Technology) at a basic level to input and retrieve information.
听Specific Requirements
Candidate to have a flexible approach to shift patterns听听
Person specification
Education / Qualification
Essential criteria
- Maths and English at level 1
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Communicates clearly in writing. Application completed fully and supportive information provided.
- Previous experience of working in a role that demonstrates the ability to prioritise and plan own work.
Desirable criteria
- Health Care Related Training
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Transferable skills from previously working with people/customer service experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of ideally working in a healthcare setting - Home care/domiciliary care
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Collette Rowley
- Job title
- Nurse Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 288 3169
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
- Telephone
- 0207 288 3762
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