Healthcare Assistant | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Cambridge, CB21 5EF |
| Cwmni: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7612159/310-MASMH-7612159 |
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The post holder will provide support and care for service users with mental and physical health needs and to their carers within a multidisciplinary setting. They will undertake assigned tasks under the general supervision of a registered nurse, including assisting in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
The post holder will be trained to ensure that issues of equality, diversity and rights are dealt with in accordance with good practice and legislation.
The post will involve working on Springbank Ward, which is a specialist unit for women with personality disorder.
• To promote a positive service user experience throughout their stay through proactive listening, being responsive to issues raised and through resolving issues and concerns raised by service users with colleagues and senior members of the team.
• Our mission is to put people in control of their care. We will maximise opportunities for individuals and their families by enabling them to look beyond their limitations to achieve their goals and aspiration In other words: “To offer people the best help to do the best for themselves.” We are committed to the core NHS values which we underpin in all that we do - Working Together for Patients Compassion Respect & Dignity Everyone Counts Improving Lives Commitment to Quality of Care.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• 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.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025