Healthcare Assistant- Fordham Ward

1 month ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Exciting opportunities has arisen for committed, enthusiastic and highly motivated Health Care Assistant to join our friendly team on Fordham Ward in Colchester Hospital.

This is part time-23 hours per week fixed term/secondment contract until 16.06.2024

Health Care Assistants are a key part of our ward team and support the Registered Nurses in providing high quality care. Due to the nature of the area there are various opportunities for HCA’s to develop skills and a career pathway within the NHS.

If you have excellent communication skills, a professional manner and are committed to providing high quality patient care, preferably with orthopaedic experience, we want to hear from you

To assist the Registered Nurses to care for the patient to ensure their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs are met

To meet the direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of Registered Nurse

To ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.



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