Healthcare Assistant - Lister Ward

Job overview

Are you a caring, compassionate individual looking to make a real difference in patient care?

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly and dedicated team on Lister Ward at Basildon Hospital.

As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our patients and nursing team. You’ll help ensure that our colorectal nurses’ outpatient clinics run smoothly, delivering compassionate, high-quality care while maintaining patients’ privacy, dignity, and comfort at all times.

Working alongside qualified staff, you’ll assist in a wide range of care duties — including personal care, moving and handling, mouth and eye care, pressure area care, and supporting patient wellbeing. You’ll also undertake both clinical and non-clinical competencies following training and assessment, ensuring you feel confident and supported in your role.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in a caring environment where teamwork, empathy, and patient focus are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re passionate about helping others and want to start or grow your career in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you — apply today!

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be a hugely valuable support to our team providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with the flow patients through the service.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role:

Undertaking observations, ECG's and urine samples Transferring patients to other clinical areas Talking to patients and their families Monitoring patient conditions and escalating concerns

Skills and personal attributes needed:

Caring and kind Cheerful and friendly Able to follow direct instructions Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative Have good listening and communication skills Be well organised Ability to escalate concerns

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role.