# Band 3 Health Care Assistants Medical and Surgical Outpatients > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-3-health-care-assistants-medical-and-surgical-outpatients/b70a041f-18ee-4816-ab6b-50f9a9055320 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-3-health-care-assistants-medical-and-surgical-outpatients/b70a041f-18ee-4816-ab6b-50f9a9055320.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Salisbury - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata if part time - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (May include evening and weekend working alongside working across multiple areas in the organisation.) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T17:01:19.299Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Salisbury/Salisbury_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Outpatients/Outpatients-v8003410 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8003410?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Have you considered nursing in Outpatients as a Healthcare Assistant? If yes, we have full and part time vacant position(s) that may give you the opportunity to develop new skills and support your work/life balance. The medical and Surgical Outpatient team have the following vacancies: Post 1 and 2 - 37.5 hours per week over 4 long days 8-6pm Post 3 - 34 hours per week over 4 days 8-5.30 or to 6pm The Main Outpatient Team would welcome applications from Healthcare Assistants who enjoy working independently and working within a team, in being instrumental in providing patient focused care. The role is located in our main outpatient department as well as supporting consultant led activity in the Breast Care Unit and Clarendon Suite where we support elderly medicine clinics. The successful candidates will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative as well as willing to take on a variety of duties whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail. We ask that the candidate applying for this post have a current NHS Care Certificate and a Health and Social Care Qualification at Level 3 with current secondary care experience. We strongly suggest you arrange an informal visit to meet the team and gain a full understanding of the role. Please Note: Unfortunately, we cannot accept those who need sponsorship. ### Main duties of the job Highlighted below are some of the nursing skills needed for a fast-paced working area such as Outpatients: - The ability to work both independently and as part of the wider Multidisciplinary Team - Supporting and assisting your consultant colleagues in the smooth running of their clinics. - Acting as a chaperone. - Being able to undertake baseline measurements; BMI, blood pressures, blood sugar monitoring, ECG’s, Urinalysis and after training spirometry, FeNO, venepuncture and/or cannulation. Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. ## Job Details Have you considered nursing in Outpatients as a Healthcare Assistant? If yes, we have full and part time vacant position(s) that may give you the opportunity to develop new skills and support your work/life balance. The medical and Surgical Outpatient team have the following vacancies: Post 1 and 2 - 37.5 hours per week over 4 long days 8-6pm Post 3 - 34 hours per week over 4 days 8-5.30 or to 6pm The Main Outpatient Team would welcome applications from Healthcare Assistants who enjoy working independently and working within a team, in being instrumental in providing patient focused care. The role is located in our main outpatient department as well as supporting consultant led activity in the Breast Care Unit and Clarendon Suite where we support elderly medicine clinics. The successful candidates will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative as well as willing to take on a variety of duties whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail. We ask that the candidate applying for this post have a current NHS Care Certificate and a Health and Social Care Qualification at Level 3 with current secondary care experience. We strongly suggest you arrange an informal visit to meet the team and gain a full understanding of the role. Please Note: Unfortunately, we cannot accept those who need sponsorship. ## Job Description Highlighted below are some of the nursing skills needed for a fast-paced working area such as Outpatients: The ability to work both independently and as part of the wider Multidisciplinary Team Supporting and assisting your consultant colleagues in the smooth running of their clinics. Acting as a chaperone. Being able to undertake baseline measurements; BMI, blood pressures, blood sugar monitoring, ECG’s, Urinalysis and after training spirometry, FeNO, venepuncture and/or cannulation. Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. ## Responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. ## Person Specification ### Interview **Essential** - Undertake an numeracy and literacy test at interview ### Experience **Essential** - Good communication skills, able to communicate respectfully verbally and in writing. - Ability to learn new skills - Significant experience in a secondary Healthcare setting as a Healthcare Assistant. - Recording ECGs - Undertake Venepuncture and Cannulation - Willingness to undertake expanded role - spirometry and fibroscanning (evidence this on application form) **Desirable** - Experience within link role for specialist area –eg falls, infection control etc - Supporting new starters, including inducting them to the clinical environment, supporting with competency and care certificate completion - Secondary Care Experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - Care Certificate - Venepuncture and Cannulation - Clinical Observation Qualification - NVQ/QCF Level 3 Health and Social Care - GCSE Maths or Numeracy and Literacy Level 2 - NVQ/QCF Level 3 ## Documents - [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618) - [healthcare assistant medical and surgical outpatients jd (pdf, 188.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10288585) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.