Healthcare Assistant - September Recruitment event

Job summary

Healthcare assistants make sure the patient experience is as comfortable and stress-free as possible.

"Christina goes above and beyond her job. She is always willing to help, does things without asking first. Christina has really taken care of me, with a smile and compassion. Nothing is ever too much trouble! She is a credit to the ward and hospital, and I sure will miss her smile first thing in a morning when she brings my breakfast. A lovely HCA with a beautiful personality. Even when the ward is so busy, she always finds time to say hello and cheer you up. Thank you, Christina xxx" Anonymised quote from a TULIP nomination for a NUH Healthcare Assistant.

No prior experience is care is necessary as we support you through a healthcare assistant induction and support you to complete the national Care Certificate.

Find out more about the role via our:HCA recruitment video

or by attending one of our HCA Taster Days:

https://tinyurl.com/yann8mvt

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, forward thinking, caring individuals who are committed to providing a high standard of safe quality patient care.

As you will be delivering hands on patient care within our adult in-patient clinical areas, we are looking for excellent communication skills and confidence in dealing with members of the public and the hospital multidisciplinary team.

No prior experience is care is necessary as we support you through a healthcare assistant induction and support you to complete the national Care Certificate.

You will need to:

• Hold the right to work in the UK (certificate of sponsorship is not available for this role)
• Be prepared to undertake pre-employment checks, which can last a number of weeks and includes a medical and criminal record check

The role is open to full time hours and part time hours. Please be aware that typical shift patterns are 07:00 - 19:30 and 19:00 - 07:30, and this is across all seven days of the week (including bank holidays).

If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited to aface to face interview. There will be an online session the day before where you can find out more about us and vice versa, we strongly recommend attendance to this session. On the day of interview, you will be required to complete a numeracy and literacy test before your interview.

Please note that virtual interviews will not be available.

Interview day:

About us

At NUH we take great pride in having in place a team of highly trained Healthcare Assistants to provide quality and compassionate patient care. These roles are essential to the experience of our patients and their relatives and carers and they complement the clinical care provided by our doctors, nurses, midwives and therapists.

As a healthcare assistant at NUH, there are many opportunities for further progression and enhancing your clinical skills.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.