Healthcare Assistant Ward 14 , Alex
The closing date is 23 June 2025
Job summary
This post is a great opportunity to make a difference to patients, acting with care and compassion you will be able to make a positive impact on the patients experience in hospital.
This is an entry level post which will provide you with invaluable experience to enable you to develop your career in the NHS. There are opportunities to develop additional skills such as venepuncture and for those who have ambitions for a career in nursing this role is a good starting point to develop the basic skills of care.
Main duties of the job
Your role as a Health Care Assistant is to work alongside a Registered Nurse as part of the Ward to provide patient centred care to patients.
Some of your duties include: washing and dressing patients, serving patients meals, assisting with feeding patients when necessary, helping people to mobilise, assisting patients with toileting, bed-making, generally assisting with patients' overall comfort, monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight.
Acting with compassion you will put patients at the centre of all you do. You will communicate effectively with patients and their carers. This role will require you to work variable hours on a rota mainly days but also including nights and weekends.
You will show courage by embracing new ways of working and doing the right thing by the people you care for, including speaking up when you have concerns.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Details
Date posted
09 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£24,169 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9365-25-0523
Job locations
Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1DD
The Alexandra Hospital
Woodrow Drive
Redditch
Worcestershire
B98 7UB
Employer details
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1DD
Employer's website
https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)



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