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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Assistant

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Job summary

We are looking for individuals with or without experience to work in healthcare, to join the NHS family helping people from your local community. Healthcare Support Worker opportunities are available in Blenheim Ward.

No experience? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. To us, it is more important that you are a caring and kind person with a genuine desire to help and support patients and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Health Care Support Worker.

Right from the time you join us, you will have access to learning, development and training opportunities. As you progress in your NHS career you will acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to provide safe and compassionate patient care.

Mid and South Essex is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce.

The Healthcare Support Worker role can also lead to a range of career opportunities. With the right support, those who want to can undertake the necessary training to become our future nurses, nursing associates and midwives.

So, if you are interested in starting a Career in Care, please apply today!

Main duties of the job

As aHealth Care Support Worker, youwill be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role

    • Washing and dressing patients
    • Serving meals and feeding patients
    • Helping patients to move around
    • Making beds
    • Talking to patients and their families
    • Monitoring patient conditio

Skills and personal attributes needed

      • Caring and kind
      • Cheerful and friendly
      • Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting
      • Able to follow direct instructions
      • Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
      • Have good listening and communication skills
      • Be well organised

Full time and part time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements.This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Details

Date posted

29 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year Per Annum Pro Rata for Part Time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

390-DoM-SO-8217

Job locations

Southend

Prittlewell chase

Southend on Sea

SS0 0RY


Job description

Job responsibilities

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.

What we Offer:

- Range of opportunities for flexible working

- Strong team ethos

- NHS salary structure and pension

- 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked

- Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Childcare vouchers

- Wide range of LGBTI+ initiatives

- Health service discounts and online benefits

- Health and wellbeing support

- Discounts on public transport

- Disability Confident Reasonable adjustment

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.

** We look forward to hearing from you and wish you good luck **

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.

What we Offer:

- Range of opportunities for flexible working

- Strong team ethos

- NHS salary structure and pension

- 27 days holiday plus days off for bank holidays worked

- Enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Childcare vouchers

- Wide range of LGBTI+ initiatives

- Health service discounts and online benefits

- Health and wellbeing support

- Discounts on public transport

- Disability Confident Reasonable adjustment

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.

** We look forward to hearing from you and wish you good luck **

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • oGood literacy demonstrated through minimal spelling and grammatical errors throughout application
  • oExperience of working with the public
  • oMust be keen to learn new skills and flexible in the workplace

Desirable

  • oPrevious experience of working in a healthcare setting
  • oHealthcare Certificate
  • oGood IT skills
  • oWorking within a team and experience of working in an environment with changing demands and priorities

presentation and compassion

Essential

  • Must be able to care for all matter of patients and remain professional

Desirable

  • previous health care experience
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • oGood literacy demonstrated through minimal spelling and grammatical errors throughout application
  • oExperience of working with the public
  • oMust be keen to learn new skills and flexible in the workplace

Desirable

  • oPrevious experience of working in a healthcare setting
  • oHealthcare Certificate
  • oGood IT skills
  • oWorking within a team and experience of working in an environment with changing demands and priorities

presentation and compassion

Essential

  • Must be able to care for all matter of patients and remain professional

Desirable

  • previous health care experience

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell chase

Southend on Sea

SS0 0RY


Employer's website

https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell chase

Southend on Sea

SS0 0RY


Employer's website

https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Ward Manager

Benjamin Lewis

benjamin.lewis4@NHS.NET

01702385022

Details

Date posted

29 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year Per Annum Pro Rata for Part Time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

390-DoM-SO-8217

Job locations

Southend

Prittlewell chase

Southend on Sea

SS0 0RY


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