Healthcare Assistant
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Blackpool, FY3 8NR
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 September 2026
3 days left
Job description
A position has become available for a full time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant on Ward 38. Ward 38 is a busy 28 bedded mixed sex Cardiothoracic Ward. War...
To provide high quality timely patient care to all patients, linking in with MDT colleagues.
Theatre prep, transport patient to investigations, personal care, assist with nutrition and hydration, assisting to provide safe environment and monitoring of high risk patients.
You need to have excellent communication skills, as our patients are often complex and require you to be patient and understanding.You will be required to liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient needs are identified and communicated effectively so that safe decisions are made around patient care.
You will be expected to maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and be personally responsible for your actions following the Trust's Policies and Procedures. You will be required to support the safe admission, transfer and discharges of patients and be pro-active in the timely support provided to patients at all times.
You will be expected to maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met.
You will be encouraged and supported to gain new skills and to be actively involved in change improvement and being a champion for an area of care that you feel interested in. You should also be committed to and have evidence of continuing professional development.
You will need to be prepared to work flexibly to the needs of the service.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applicants apply.
Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire.
We are proud of the care we strive to provide, and we want to continue to build on this by the addition of passionate, kind and caring people to our teams. Using the latest pathways, evidence-based care and, using all the community therapy support networks available to us to give every patient the best opportunity to remain independent, safe and supported. We are looking for people who strongly align with our Trust values and share common goals.
As a Trust we are committed to
- Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
- Real equality of opportunity.
- Continuous learning and development for staff.
- Achieving a work life balance
We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.
The Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post.
Desirable
- IT qualification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures.
- Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids
- Experience of completing patient care records
Desirable
- Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s
- Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures
- Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition.
- Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities
- Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision.
- Understands confidentiality
- Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role.
- Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role.
- Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems.
- Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG's, simple wound dressings.
- Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA's, Band 2 HCA's
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Caring, Adaptable to the changing needs of the service, Self-motivated, Enthusiastic, Approachable, Diplomatic, Innovative, Flexible, Responsible and accountable
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
20 August 2026
Last checked
24 August 2026
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