NHS
Health Care Assistant
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Job Description
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- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
- Valid UK driving licence
- Own car for work purposes
- Previous experience of working within the NHS
- Evidence of desire to work within community mental health setting
- Awareness of mental health conditions
- Phlebotomy trained and previous experience of physical health assessments
- Valid UK driving licence
- Own car for work purposes
- Previous experience of working within the NHS
- Evidence of desire to work within community mental health setting
- Awareness of mental health conditions
- Phlebotomy trained and previous experience of physical health assessments
Job summary
Please note for this role you must either drive or have access to a car to fulfil the duties of the role.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed staff member to join our Intensive Support Team. You will work with the Multi-Disciplinary Team: a spectrum of clinical professionals which includes Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapist and support staff providing Intensive Support to patients living with dementia and older adults with complex mental health needs, whom without intensive support would be at risk of needing a hospital admission.
This advert may close early should sufficient number of applications be received.
Main duties of the job
To work collaboratively with key partner organisations, Service Users, carers,
clinicians and other practitioners within theMulti-Disciplinary Team to deliver high
quality, recoveryfocused care interventions.
You will be responsible for assisting in the management and care of Service Users
based upon individual needs, under the care planning and guidance of senior qualified
staff.
To support the service and Associate Practitioner by conducting physical health assessments for service users. Provision of practical support to Service Users in performingday to day activities, guidance and education in accordance with the agreed care plan and for a dedicate period of time.
Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of records on all Service User under your care in line with Trust policy.
About us
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Date posted
22 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata, plus HCA
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
364-A-8882
Job locations
St Margarets Hospital
Mental Health Unit, St Margarets Hospital.
Epping
CM16 6TN
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Job responsibilities
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all of our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately your application form be rejected from the process.
Please note this vacancy requires a face to face interview with the Recruiting Manager. Applicants that are unable to attend a face to face interview need not apply.
The Herts and West Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education and experience of Healthcare Assistants.
To support this one workforce model the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE ICS Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.
Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.
Further information will be provided post interview.
This will be followed by an additional 5 day (Monday to Friday) EPUT corporate / mandatory training welcome. (EPUT Welcome will be varied between face to face and virtual delivery).
Job responsibilities
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all of our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately your application form be rejected from the process.
Please note this vacancy requires a face to face interview with the Recruiting Manager. Applicants that are unable to attend a face to face interview need not apply.
The Herts and West Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a one workforce cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education and experience of Healthcare Assistants.
To support this one workforce model the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE ICS Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.
Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.
Further information will be provided post interview.
This will be followed by an additional 5 day (Monday to Friday) EPUT corporate / mandatory training welcome. (EPUT Welcome will be varied between face to face and virtual delivery).
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Margarets Hospital
Mental Health Unit, St Margarets Hospital.
Epping
CM16 6TN
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Margarets Hospital
Mental Health Unit, St Margarets Hospital.
Epping
CM16 6TN
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.