Healthcare Support Worker

14/10/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital , Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit

Job overviewJob overview

A rewarding job as a BAND 3 Nursing Assistant in the Oxford Eye Hospital!

The Oxford Eye Hospital, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital (West Wing), is a centre of innovation in Ophthalmology. We are expanding our nursing workforce to further develop our service and continue providing excellent care. As part of this role, there is a requirement to travel to peripheral sites, including community satellite clinics to support clinical activities as needed.

Main duties of the jobMain duties of the job

We are a busy Ophthalmology Outpatient department treating over 106,000 adults and children a year in the full range of ophthalmology clinics, including an Eye Emergency Department. Our team is made up of over several members of staff, including specialist nurses, nursing assistants and band 4 assistant practitioners,

As a Band 3 Nursing Assistant you will have a great opportunity to build upon your existing knowledge and skills. Being welcomed as part of our happy, dynamic team you will assist the Doctors and Nurses running clinics for adults and children from Monday to Sunday.

Whilst our main clinics are at the John Radcliffe hospital, as part of this role, you will be expected to support clinical activity across other Trust locations (Satellite community clinics) when cover is required. Our current peripheral sites include community clinic bases in Wantage, Banbury, Abingdon, Witney, Bicester and others. Please note that there is an expectation for flexibility, and should additional peripheral community clinic locations be established in the future, you will be required to travel to these sites as part of your role.

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

(Please also see the generic Band 3 JD attached)

Having a confident, outgoing, kind personality with the energy and commitment to providing great quality care, you will interact well with patients and colleagues helping the service to run smoothly and our patients to have a positive experience of their time with us having been treated with respect, dignity and compassion.

In return, we will offer you training and development in order that you can deliver skills such as taking bloods, assessing patient's vision and instilling eye drops.

To be considered for this post we just ask that you have some experience in a healthcare role, communicate well, have a positive, 'can-do' attitude and can demonstrate a real passion for the work we do. If you have never thought about working 'in eyes' before, you will be amazed how interesting the specialty is and don't worry; we will give you a comprehensive induction and you will soon be amazed at how fast your knowledge and skills grow.

Our working hours are a mix of several shift patterns, including but not limited to, 7:30am/8am to 6:00pm/6:30pm (or later finish, depending on Departmental needs) Monday to Sunday.

We also, often run extra clinics at weekends so there is opportunity to work NHSP too. Driving your own car would be an advantage (but not mandatory) to this position as we do require cover in our community clinics locations throughout the week. We look forward to receiving your application!

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