Band 2 Hca

**band 2**:
**Main area**
- Haematology

**Grade**
- band 2

**Contract**
- Permanent: Full time shift work incl nights & weekends

**Hours**
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time shift work incl nights & weekends)

**Job ref**
- 343-7250321-RB-SK

**Site**
- St Helier Hospital

**Town**
- Carshalton

**Salary**
- £28,720 Per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 09/07/2025 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

**Job overview**:
We are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic and caring Healthcare Assistants, who have a passion for working on a medical ward to join our supportive and friendly team.

You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication and inter-personal skills; It is preferred to have previous experience in the role.

You will be provided a clinical training to learn the role and will have daily supervision by a trained staff to perform safely, confidently and competently the clinical skills required. The Trust are giving opportunities and support for your future career pathway and development.

So if you’re the kind of person who cares about getting things right and wants to make a difference in a forward thinking team we would love to meet you.

**Main duties of the job**:
Previous experience in this role is preferred. However, you will be provided with the clinical training to learn the role. You will be provided with daily supervision by trained staff to perform safely, confidently and competently. Applicants must be able to demonstrate:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Genuine desire to become a part of our amazing team and provide outstanding care for our patients
- ability to work well within a team as well as individually
- be hard working, compassionate and have a passion to care for our client group.

the trust will always provide opportunities and support for your future career pathway and development.

whilst the registered nurse retains accountability for the care delivered by the HCA, the post holder is responsible for their own practise, working within the defined limits of competence and within the scope of the role.

**Working for our organisation**:

- St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC)._
- _After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce._

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Healthcare Assistant role at Epsom and St Helier.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications and training**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Care Certificate or willingness to complete the Care Certificate within 6-12 weeks

**Desirable criteria**:

- GCSE or equivalent in Math and English
- Health & Social Care Level 2 or 3 certificate or Higher Development training

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to work within a team
- Ability to provide holistic care
- Basic IT experience or willingness to input an electronic record system

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working within relevant speciality in a ward or hospital in a caring role
- Experience of taking and documenting basic patient observations such as TPR and BP

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Awareness of human anatomy and physiology
- Demonstrates an insight into personal care needs

**Desirable criteria**:

- Familiar with patient care

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability provide holistic patient nursing care
- Demonstrates an ability to listen and learn and escalate to Registered Nurse and other registered practitioners

**Desirable criteria**:

- ability to use computer system and use of Microsoft Office

**Personal Attributes**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Demonstrates a sense of commitment to working in a caring environment with people of all ages
- Calm and approachable manner
- Personally and professionally mature and recognizes own limitations

**Desirable criteria**:

- Flexibility to work across the trust

**DBS**: