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Nursing Assistant / Support Worker - Essex

Claimont Health LTD

Colchester, CO4 5JL

Salary

£15.00

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

30 September 2026

30 days left

Job description

Job Summary Claimont Health have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Nursing Assistant. This role will be based in the community supporting ...

Main Duties

We are looking for high quality, dynamic and experienced Nursing Assistants / Support Workers who have experience working with people with spinal injury and who are able to provide domiciliary home care.

You must have/be

  • 1 years or more experience as a Complex Care Support Worker working with people with spinal injury.
  • Flexibility, maturity, independence and the very highest professional standards
  • Commitment to delivering client specific care
  • Adaptable approach to support client and family members
  • Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries within a home setting

Night Nursing Assistant- Complex Care - Essex

Claimont Health have an exciting opportunity to join our team as Nursing Assistant.

This role will be based in the community supporting clients who have complex health needs requiring a high level of care and support at home.

Are you a caring individual who is passionate about delivering person centred care? Do you believe you can make a positive impact to our clients lives? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for individuals to join our team either on a part time or Bank Staff basis.

We are looking for Nursing Assistants who have a proven track record of complex care experience and have supported clients with skills such as:

  • Tracheostomy care
  • Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) including feeding.
  • Ventilation management
  • Oral suctioning
  • Bowel management
  • Nebuliser (NEB)
  • Medications

What you can expect from us in return:

Reporting to our Complex Care Lead Nurse, the successful candidate will benefit from the support and motivation of both the clinical and operations teams.

Competitive rates £16 per hour

Bank, Weekdays, Weekends

Its a great feeling seeing the resulting outcomes of your skills and expertise that enable our clients to use their strengths to improve their own well-being. Come and be part of our journey to be the leading independent sector provider of flexible, responsive, and dynamic complex care in the UK.

Required Skills/Qualifications

  • 1 year or more experience as a Healthcare Assistant with complex care experience.
  • NVQ Level 3 related subjects.
  • NVQ Level 4 related subjects.
  • Nursery nurse qualifications or similar.
  • Diploma in relevant health/ social subject.
  • Commitment to delivering client specific care.
  • Adaptable and Professional approach to support client and family members.

Our Mission and Values

Claimonts mission is to be the leading independent sector provider of flexible, responsive, and dynamic mental health services in the UK. The values we live by are:

  • Commitment
  • Care
  • Compassion
  • Leadership
  • Innovation

Claimont Health follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each persons individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Claimont Health is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights.

So, why choose Claimont Health? Claimont Health is on an exciting journey to become a nationally recognised, go-to, dynamic provider of high quality and innovative mental health and complex care services across the whole of the United Kingdom. We are a CQC registered. We provide high-profile, person centred, holistic services to clients who prefer to be treated in the comfort of their own homes. We offer a tailored service, providing highly skilled mental health professionals to complement the clients needs.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualifications:
  • NVQ level 3 related subjects
  • NVQ level 4 related subjects
  • Nursery nurse qualification or similar
  • Diploma in relevant health / social subject

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience in a similar role which demonstrates
  • commitment to mandatory training, attendance, and engagement.
  • Previous care experience in a health, social care, or childcare
  • setting.
  • Experience of communicating highly complex or sensitive
  • information and using skills to overcome barriers to understanding
  • such as, with non-verbal clients.
  • Understanding of Information Governance, Data Protection, Care
  • Certificate standards, and safeguarding vulnerable children and
  • adults.
  • Experience of working in both acute and community settings.
  • Experience with working within Mental Health.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Ability to provide good quality care
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to
  • multi-task
  • Be able to work on your own initiative and/or as part of team
  • across multiple areas
  • To be able to demonstrate tact and sensitivity when
  • communicating with families under immense pressure, always
  • reserving judgement and demonstrating empathy, compassion
  • and understanding
  • To maintain strict confidentiality on all matters relating to
  • clients, their families
  • High level of attention to detail, accuracy, and pride in your
  • work presentation
  • Claimont Health is specifically recruiting female applicants only in keeping with the positive action provision within the Equality Act 2010 order to meet patient needs and employee safety. This post is exempt under the Employment (Sex Discrimination) Act 2000, Section the (s9(2)(f)) Personal welfare and counselling which constitutes a Genuine Occupational Qualification. The role involves working with service users where there is a risk assessment identifying the need for a female candidate.

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

31 August 2026

Last checked

31 August 2026

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About the employer

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Claimont Health LTD

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