# Health Care Assistant - Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/health-care-assistant-tower-hamlets-centre-for-mental-health/2539dfe0-b8d8-4210-acbb-186d83233a7f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/health-care-assistant-tower-hamlets-centre-for-mental-health/2539dfe0-b8d8-4210-acbb-186d83233a7f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £24,071 - £25,674 per annum Inc HCAs - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days, Weekends and Night shift working expected) - **Closing date:** 2026-05-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-24T15:01:10.747Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Acute_Inpatient_Psychiatry/Acute_Inpatient_Psychiatry-v7993895 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7993895?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview East London NHS Foundation Trust currently provides inpatient mental health and learning disability services in North East London. Are you a good listener, someone people go to when distressed or troubled, someone who knows the right thing to say or the right thing to do, someone who does not judge, does not make assumptions and can see the potential in everyone? As a Health Care Assistant (HCA) you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team on an in-patient ward, with supervision, support and training you will deliver interventions defined within the personalised care plan, spend time engaging, connecting, supporting patients, families, carers and friends through their recovery pathway. You will help facilitate activities/groups and ward based projects and be actively involved in every aspect of their physical, psychological and social care. The successful candidate will work on one of our acute inpatient wards City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health. Our acute mental health wards provide care, acute psychiatric assessment and treatment for men and women who are experiencing acute episodes of mental illness. We have vacancies on male and female acute wards, and male psychiatric intensive care unit. ### Main duties of the job This is an ideal first job in mental health, suitable for those with life experience or an opportunity for those with a psychology degree to gain clinical experience. However; previous experience in a similar health care setting would be an advantage; good computer skills are essential and will give you the upper hand if you are appointed.  The ideal applicant will have experience in mental health facilitating and meeting the various individual needs of service users whilst under direction and supervision by senior colleagues and the clinical nurse manager. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see detailed job description and person specification. Please refer to this prior to applying for the role. ## Job Details East London NHS Foundation Trust currently provides inpatient mental health and learning disability services in North East London. Are you a good listener, someone people go to when distressed or troubled, someone who knows the right thing to say or the right thing to do, someone who does not judge, does not make assumptions and can see the potential in everyone? As a Health Care Assistant (HCA) you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team on an in-patient ward, with supervision, support and training you will deliver interventions defined within the personalised care plan, spend time engaging, connecting, supporting patients, families, carers and friends through their recovery pathway. You will help facilitate activities/groups and ward based projects and be actively involved in every aspect of their physical, psychological and social care. The successful candidate will work on one of our acute inpatient wards City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health. Our acute mental health wards provide care, acute psychiatric assessment and treatment for men and women who are experiencing acute episodes of mental illness. We have vacancies on male and female acute wards, and male psychiatric intensive care unit. ## Job Description This is an ideal first job in mental health, suitable for those with life experience or an opportunity for those with a psychology degree to gain clinical experience. However; previous experience in a similar health care setting would be an advantage; good computer skills are essential and will give you the upper hand if you are appointed.  The ideal applicant will have experience in mental health facilitating and meeting the various individual needs of service users whilst under direction and supervision by senior colleagues and the clinical nurse manager. ## Responsibilities Please see detailed job description and person specification. Please refer to this prior to applying for the role. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Working in a care setting **Desirable** - Dealing with challenging situations - Working with Mental Health Service Users - Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate - Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Able to manage time to meet deadlines - Ability to work autonomously - Ability to work as part of a team - Be able to respond with compassion and empathy - Demonstrate an understanding of caring for people with mental health problems - Demonstrate a degree of emotional intelligence and self-reflection **Desirable** - Demonstrate an understanding of the specialty - Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities - Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact - Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice ### Education/ Qualification/ Training **Essential** - Educated to GCSE level of equivalent Completed or the willingness to undertake Care certificate **Desirable** - GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [functional requirements (pdf, 323.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10278103) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [band 3 hca person specification and job description (pdf, 437.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10278101) ## 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.