Band 3 Healthcare Assistant | Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	20 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£29,176 - £30,225 Per Annum HCA inclusive
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	20 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	Romford, RM7 0AG
Cwmni:	Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7294817/162-7114-KI

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Our busy Children’s Department covers two sites – Queens Hospital in Romford and King George’s Hospital in Ilford. We deliver a comprehensive range of general medical and surgical services to our local population and have an inpatient ward, one with a co-located 4 bedded HDU, two Children and Young People Assessment Unit (CYPAU) over at Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital, a day unit with a POSCU and haematology service, two outpatients departments with a GP ‘hot clinic’, a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists and a Children’s Community Nursing team.

We have two ED’s for children, one on each site, and the Romford ED is among the busiest in the country with over 155,000 children’s attendances each year.

When you come here you’ll always be learning; developing your knowledge and ensuring your skills are kept fully up to date. You will be supported by Practice Development nurses, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Quality managers, together with a friendly multidisciplinary team and a corporate training and development team. We have in house leadership programmes and work with a range of universities to ensure you can progress through academic pathways to support your career development.

We know it takes happy, motivated staff to produce patient satisfaction, so we’re investing in making our hospitals great places to work. It’s about living our values: Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive and Empowerment – the PRIDE at the heart of all we do.

Applications are invited for Band 3 - Healthcare Assistant (HCA) for Tropical Lagoon ward at Queen's Hospital . The post holder will assist in the provision of high quality, holistic care to children, young people, and their families by working effectively as members of the multi-disciplinary team. This involve providing care to children and young people under the direct supervision and direction of registered children's nurses. The post holder will work autonomously within guidelines, caring for low acuity children in the ward settings, and assisting the registered nurses in the care of higher acuity children when directed, and will be proactive in monitoring and anticipating the needs of the patients within the boundaries of the job description. We are then looking for an individual, who possesses excellent communication skills, hardworking, reliable, and dedicated with good organisational skills. The post holder must be able to work flexibly, unsupervised and must be resilient under pressure.
All new staff contract to posts at the Trust will be subject to a 6-month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the culture and working environment of the Trust.

The post holder will assist the Ward Manager in the provision of a clean, well maintained ward area with effective stock ordering and rotation, appropriate management and escalation of equipment and estates issues which require attention or repair together with effective escalation of concerns related to cleaning and catering.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

If you’re interested in this opportunity and would like to make an informal enquiry, please contact: Wendy Gillham on 01708435000 Dect 6557.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact KeKeIgere, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5208. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.


This advert closes on Sunday 6 Jul 2025

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