# Bank Healthcare Assistant - Wards

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Spire Healthcare Ltd.

## Canonical URLs

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spire Healthcare Ltd
- **Location:** HARPENDEN, HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Contract type:** Bank
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-14T15:16:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14T15:53:37.680Z
- **Source information URL:** https://elij.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/28373
- **Application URL:** https://elij.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/28373
- **Employer website:** https://www.spirehealthcare.com/

## Job Content

Bank Healthcare Assistant | Harpenden | Wards | Days/Nights/Weekends Required

Are you a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant looking for flexibility and variety in your role? Join our friendly and supportive team in Harpenden and play a vital role in delivering outstanding patient care.

As a Bank Healthcare Assistant, you'll work on an as-and-when-required basis, helping to support our clinical teams during busy periods, staff absences, and seasonal demands. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a dynamic hospital setting while maintaining flexibility around your lifestyle.

Duties and responsibilities:

- To assist the qualified nursing staff, under their supervision, in providing a high quality, comprehensive nursing service to all patients and users, ensuring a high standard of a patient care is maintained in a clean and safe environment.
- Contributing to the support and monitoring of patients
- Identifying and reporting any significant changes that might affect the patient’s health and well-being to the appropriate person

Shifts Available – Long days Monday to Sunday

Who we are looking for:

- Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a hospital environment
- Theatre/minor ops experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations (Desirable)
- Good team work ethic
- Enthusiastic and energetic professional
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 is desirable but not essential
- Flexible to be able to work a mixture of days/night shifts

Benefits

- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

“Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.”

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a hospital environment
- Theatre/minor ops experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations (Desirable)
- Good team work ethic
- Enthusiastic and energetic professional
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 is desirable but not essential
- Flexible to be able to work a mixture of days/night shifts

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