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Health Care Assistant
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Permanent (37.5 or 23hrs))
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

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

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

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

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to and use Keyword 鈥榃hittington鈥

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

Health Care Support Worker Band 2 progression to band 3听 (Full or Part Time) - Various departments across Whittington Health - Hospital Site

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

Specific Requirements

Candidate to have a flexible approach to shift patterns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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Telephone
0207 288 3762