# Healthcare Assistant - Bank > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant-bank/01a71092-a7bc-4b3f-8f0c-407f1e115c57 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant-bank/01a71092-a7bc-4b3f-8f0c-407f1e115c57.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trinity House (Trust Headquarters) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Healthcare assistant - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £13.60 + 12.07% WTD per hour - **Contract type:** Bank: 0 weeks - **Employment type:** Flexible working - 0 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-11T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-25T10:10:34.179Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Ashford/Kent_Community_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Healthcare_Assistant_Ward/Healthcare_Assistant_Ward-v8322732 - **Employer website:** https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview As a temporary worker, you will be supporting the Community Hospitals Team based at one of our hospitals or supporting our Care Home services, where you will be delivering care, both clinical and non-clinical to patients/ clients. You’ll also be key in supporting patients with their own self-care and independence. ### Main duties of the job - recording your actions accurately in patient notes - Basic observations - personal care - washing and dressing. - Catheter care - changing catheter bags and changing catheters - Mouth care - Stoma care - Supporting fluid and nutrition - Calibration of blood glucose machines and taking blood glucose levels - MRSA swabs - Risk assessments such as falls assessment, nutrition and hydration, skin integrity - Sub cut injections (e.g. insulin injection) - Venepuncture - ECG - Simple wound management - Post-surgical wounds - Aseptic non touch technique - Bladder scanning Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further. The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert. We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve. Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity. ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Recent experience of healthcare/ working as a health care assistant gained through education, work experience or previous employment. - Experience of working in a mental health setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) Level 3. This could be an NVQ Level 3 apprenticeship, BTEC or equivalent international qualification in healthcare ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 432.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10644537) - [staff privacy notice (pdf, 528.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2665) - [kchft values into action (pdf, 440.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=479) - [staff journey illustration (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2277) - [a guide to completing your application (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2025) ## 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.