# Healthcare Assistant - Wards

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Spire Healthcare Ltd.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant-wards/12e919d9-94ee-42b5-bbaf-23f2df5e32f2
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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spire Healthcare Ltd
- **Location:** Spire Harpenden Hospital
- **Profession:** Healthcare assistant
- **Contract type:** Bank
- **Employment type:** Full time
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-14T15:07:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13T08:37:58.000Z
- **Source information URL:** https://elij.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/27948
- **Application URL:** https://elij.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/27948
- **Employer website:** https://www.spirehealthcare.com/

## Job Content

Bank Healthcare Assistant | Harpenden | Wards | 25 hours per week | Required to workdays/Nights/Weekends

Spire Harpenden Hospital has an exciting opportunity for Healthcare Assistant to join their ward department on a part time contract (25 hours per week). The successful applicant will work in a team that provides high quality evidence-based nursing care in a surgical settings to facilitate smooth and efficient patient pathways.

Duties and responsibilities:

- To assist the qualified nursing staff, under their supervision, in providing a high quality, comprehensive nursing service to all patients and users, ensuring a high standard of a patient care is maintained in a clean and safe environment.
- Contributing to the support and monitoring of patients
- Identifying and reporting any significant changes that might affect the patient’s health and well-being to the appropriate person

Who we are looking for:

- Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a hospital environment
- Theatre/minor ops experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations (Desirable)
- Good team work ethic
- Enthusiastic and energetic professional
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 is desirable but not essential

Shifts – Long days & Nights You must be able to work any shifts Monday to Sunday

Benefits

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Previous experience of working as an HCA (or equivalent) in a hospital environment
- Theatre/minor ops experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in: ECGs, taking blood/blood pressures and patient observations (Desirable)
- Good team work ethic
- Enthusiastic and energetic professional
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 is desirable but not essential
- Shifts – Long days & Nights You must be able to work any shifts Monday to Sunday

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