Nursing Assistant

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

The closing date is 28 April 2025

Job summary

We are looking for compassionate and caring individuals to join our permanent teams at East Surrey Hospital. We currently have vacancies across the Trust within the medical and surgical divisions.

We have a bespoke training package developed to meet the needs of both those new to care and those with previous experience.

We are committed to your development throughout your career and have apprenticeship pathways that can lead to roles such as Registered Nursing Associate and Registered Nurse.

All we ask is you bring with you your compassion, care, kindness and a can-do approach, which are attributes we know will help you to thrive in our organisation.

The nursing assistant role is a valued role within our teams, when we asked colleagues to describe the impact they have they used the following words:

Invaluable
Supportive
Inspiring
Irreplaceable
Essential

If you want to make a difference to our patients and their families every day and go home feeling proud, valued and knowing you have made an impact on someone's day, we want to hear from you.

We offer you the opportunity to join one of our friendly teams, whereby you will be supported by both your manager and our education colleagues. This will enable you to grow and flourish to reach your full potential.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.

Date posted

14 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum plus high cost allowance

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

326-7146863-AW

Job locations

East Surrey Hospital

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH1 5RH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person Specification

Criteria

Essential

Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
A complete and accurate application
Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
Evidence of essential experience for role
Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

Person Specification

Criteria

Essential

Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
A complete and accurate application
Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
Evidence of essential experience for role
Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.