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Healthcare Assistant
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,937.00 to £26,598.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB1 3DF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0699 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and personal specification for full details of role. This posts covers 24 hr full rotational shifts. Work on the wards to provide care for adults with physical and / or mental health challenges. To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care. Support service users to overcome barriers they experience because of their mental or physical health. Work closely with nurses and other practitioners to provide a therapeutic programme of care. Report on service users' conditions to nurses and other practitioners. Provide information to service users using persuasion, reassurance, tact, and empathy. Provide the necessary physical care to service users to help them complete daily living activities, i.e. personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations, whilst demonstrating empathy, dignity, respect and compassion. To undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and report results to the nurse in charge. To provide social activities, emotional support and stability to service users to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries. Empower service users by ensuring that they receive relevant information about their treatment, medication, available services, advocacy services, ward routines and safety procedures under the guidance of a registered nurse.