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Healthcare Assistant - Burns and Plastics | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 10 Hydref 2025
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £24,937 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
Oriau: Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau: 09 Tachwedd 2025
Lleoliad: Chelmsford, CM1 7ET
Cwmni: Southend University Hospital NHS Trust
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 7541479/390-BD-BR-3292-A

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Adult Burns ward is an eight bedded ward, specialising in the rehabilitation and treatment of adults who have sustained burn injuries and require intensive therapy and wound care. We are currently recruiting for Band 3 Health Care Assistants to help maintain our high standard of care.
The successful candidates will be able to cope in a busy and dynamic clinic environment, working alongside nursing and medical staff, to help with patient flow.

Right from the time you join us, you will have access to learning, development and training opportunities. As you progress in your role you will acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to provide safe and compassionate patient care.

Mid and South Essex is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. We encourage applications from people who embrace our values and who will enable us to expand our diverse workforce.

The Healthcare Support Worker role provides an exciting opportunity to learn extended skills such as venepuncture, cannulation, wound care and much more. It is a fast paced clinical area, with great learnng opportunities, two days are never the same.

As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our team providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with the flow patients through the service.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role

Undertaking observations, ECG's and urine samples
Transferring patients to other clinical areas
Talking to patients and their families
Monitoring patient conditions and escalating concerns
Assisting in wound care and personal care to patients
Assisting Registered Nurses in their duties

Skills and personal attributes needed

Caring and kind
Cheerful and friendly
Able to follow direct instructions
Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
Have good written, listening and communication skills
Be well organised
Ability to escalate concerns

The Mid and South 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.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.

Are you looking for an exciting Healthcare Assistant role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.


This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025

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