# Bank Healthcare Assistant - Whitchurch MIU / OPD

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- **Location:** Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust - Oswestry Health Centre
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Salary:** £25760.00 to £27476.00
- **Contract type:** Bank
- **Employment type:** Flexible working, Other, Bank shifts as required
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T14:36:17.538Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8332919
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8332919?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This vacancy is open to all. You do not need to work for the Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust to apply.

Please note that this job does not meet the requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for Bank Band 3 Healthcare Assistant’s (HCA) to support our Outpatient Department (OPD) and Minor Injury Unit (MIU) at Whitchurch Hospital. However, as a bank HCA, you will also have the opportunity to pick up shifts at the following sites as they become available, supporting the inpatient wards:

- Ludlow Community Hospital
- Bishops Castle Community Hospital
- Bridgnorth Community Hospital
- Whitchurch Community Hospital

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

### Main duties of the job

We are proactive forward thinking teams, who constantly strive for the delivery of excellent patient care and modern ways of working. The team's work closely with Therapies, Virtual Ward and Rapid Response, supporting multi-professional working.

The services operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with Early, Late (or Long day) and Nights shifts available.

The teams provide nursing care to patients while on the wards with a rehab focus and promotion of patient independence.

We are committed to clinical support, CPD & training.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the role, please see the attached document entitled 'Job Description and Person Specification'.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Be able to meet the travel requirements of the post

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of previous HCA / Care work
- Evidence of work with a background relating to out-patients

### Knowledge and Skills

**Essential**

- Awareness of accountability issues e.g. confidentiality
- Awareness of the role of the Health Care Assistant
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of safety procedures
- Knowledge and skills in care related procedures, for example ➢ First aid ➢ Application of Plaster of Paris, slings and splints ➢ Simple closure of minor wounds ➢ Dressing Minor wounds ➢ Basic patient observations e.g. Blood Pressure, ECG etc

### Training and Qualifications

**Essential**

- NVQ level 3 in care or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Good standard of English (GCSE Grade A-C or equivalent)

## Documents

- [privacy notice (pdf, 326.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2731)
- [band 3 opd / miu hca (pdf, 200.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10656129)
- [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 75.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2730)

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