Healthcare Assistant

6 months ago


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

Do you want to join Critical Care and make a difference to our patients? Do you possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work confidently? Are you keen and motivated to learn?

If so, we are looking for a healthcare assistant who is passionate about the care of patients to join our well-established Critical Care team at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust based at Colchester Hospital site, delivering a 24/7 service.

You will be highly motivated, and willing to work within our team of nurses and healthcare assistants to provide excellent support to our patients and their families, as well as contribute to the smooth running of our Critical Care Unit.

Depending on your level of experience, you will develop your competence and confidence through a programme of supervised practice, critical care specific competencies and a series of development days specifically for Band 3 staff. You will initially start in a Band 2 developmental post, rising to Band 3 on completion of the critical care healthcare assistant competency package. (Band 2 starting salary from £22,383 per annum pro rata). You will already have completed your Care Certificate.

You must be able to work a variety of shifts, including days, nights and weekends. We are unable to offer set shifts patterns.

In this role you will work within a Clinical Specialist team and contribute to activities and projects with the goal of professional and practice development.

You will have excellent communication skills, be able to work well in a team and be able to work flexibly according to the day-to-day needs of the unit.

The Critical Care Units form part of the East of England Critical Care Delivery Network and both sites utilise a paperless clinical information system.

Applicants will be expected to undertake internal rotation and weekend duties.

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 over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to 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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