Healthcare Assistant
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
317 Northern Cancer Centre Carlisle, CA2 7HYView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
13 September 2026
2 days leftJob description
The Northern Cancer Centre Carlisle specialises in the care of people with oncological and haematological cancers. with two busy chemotherapy suites i...
- Assisting with minor procedures and carrying out venepuncture, chaperoning
- Assisting the qualified nursing team as required
- Patient observation
- Ensuring cleanliness standards are maintained
- Supporting patients
- Team Working and excellent communication Skills
- Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for all essential and desirable criteria required for the role.
- To abide by Trust policies and procedures
- To assist the Registered Nurses or other registered health care practitioners in providing high quality patient care
- Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times
- Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
- Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care
- Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
- Ability to meet basic care needs of patients
- Understanding of confidentiality
Desirable: - Understanding of basic safeguarding
Skills
Essential
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager
- Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire
Desirable: - Competent in physical skills - blood pressure, recording ECGs, blood glucose, phlebotomy etc
Experience
Essential
- Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities
- Previous experience / consolidation of practice as a HCA (evidence of knowledge attained at level 3 using the Qualifications and Credit Framework)
Desirable: - Experience of Hospital PAS / eRecord systems - making appointments, registration etc; - Previous experience within speciality
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in appropriate subject (or on pathway) or equivalent qualification / experience
- GCSE in Maths and English at Grades 3-1 (or D-G or Functional/Key Skills Level 1)
- Completion of a Trust or other HCA development programme
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
11 September 2026
Last checked
11 September 2026
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