# Community Nursing Auxiliary / Health Care Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St Catherine's Health Centre
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata pa
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02T09:41:03.738Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Eastham/Wirral_Community_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Nursing/Community_Nursing-v8338736
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8338736?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.wchc.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

We are looking to recruit a Community Health Care Assistant to support our South Wirral Community Nursing Team.

A Community Nursing Auxiliary/ Health Care Assistant (HCA) in the National Health Service (NHS) plays a key role in supporting patients in their own homes or community settings. Their duties focus on practical care and assisting qualified healthcare professionals.

### Main duties of the job

Here are the main duties:

- Monitoring Clinical Observation signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure)
- Supporting medication routines (depending on training and supervision)
- Dressing wounds or assisting nurses with procedures
- Helping patients maintain a clean and safe home environment
- Supporting with light household tasks (e.g., meal prep, tidying)
- Encouraging independence in daily activities
- Providing companionship and reassurance
- Supporting patients with mental wellbeing and reducing isolation
- Communicating with patients’ families or carers
- Recording patient information and reporting changes in condition
- Communicating with nurses, GPs, and other healthcare professionals
- Following care plans accurately
- Travelling between patients’ homes
- Working in diverse settings like clinics, care homes, or supported housing
- Following infection control procedures
- Recognising and reporting safeguarding concerns (e.g., abuse or neglect

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Wound Care
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention
- Support Independence
- Shared Care
- Support Registered Nurses

### 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

### Personal qualities

**Essential**

- Willingness to undertake in-service training and development

### Skills and attributes

**Essential**

- Good communication skills verbal/written
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good personal organisational skills
- Ability to work unsupervised when required
- Access to a car for work purposes

**Desirable**

- Basic computer skills

### Experience and knowledge

**Essential**

- Experience of patient care
- Experience of working within a team

**Desirable**

- Experience of work in the community

### Qualifications and professional training

**Essential**

- NVQ Level III – direct care, social care (or equivalent)
- Manual Handling Skills
- Knowledge of Infection Control
- Knowledge of Tissue Viability

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 488.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662669)
- [ps (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662670)

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