# Healthcare Assistant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant/b768e24e-9bf3-49a0-995c-b9b7e43e5aa7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant/b768e24e-9bf3-49a0-995c-b9b7e43e5aa7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Blackpool Victoria Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Healthcare assistant - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, fully rotational across days, nights, weekends, shifts - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T15:42:17.335Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Blackpool/Blackpool_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Healthcare_Assistant/Healthcare_Assistant-v8245501 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8245501?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.blackpoolteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for inspirational and motivated Health Care Assistants to join our Trust within our Medicine and Emergency Care Division and Surgical Division at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. The successful candidates will be supported by both our nursing and medical team and essential training for the role will be provided. You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and be enthusiastic and passionate about the delivery of high-quality care. As a health care assistant within the team, your role will be assisting our patients with everyday tasks which involve maintaining a good oral intake, assisting with personal hygiene, and escorting patients to various procedures whilst also assisting both our medical and nursing teams to deliver treatment. In addition to providing essential nursing care, there will be a range of clinical skills you are expected to acquire to fulfil the role requirements, such as undertaking clinical observations and venepuncture (taking blood samples). All necessary training for acquiring these skills will be provided by the Trust, through our induction and training program, including enrolment in the Care Certificate qualification. Working alongside skilled health professionals who work within this multidisciplinary team, the departments provide a fantastic place to learn and for you to develop your skills. Please apply early as this vacancy may close early. The Trust DOES NOT provide sponsorship for this role. ### Main duties of the job Main duties of the job We are looking to recruit a number of caring and enthusiastic healthcare assistants to join various wards across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. You need to have excellent communication skills, as our patients are often complex and require you to be patient and understanding. You will be required to liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient needs are identified and communicated effectively so that safe decisions are made around patient care. You will be expected to maintain high standards of nursing care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and be personally responsible for your actions following the Trust’s Policies and Procedures. You will be required to support the safe admission, transfer and discharges of patients and be pro-active in the timely support provided to patients at all times. You will be expected to maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met. You will be encouraged and supported to gain new skills and to be actively involved in change improvement and being a champion for an area of care that you feel interested in. You should also be committed to and have evidence of continuing professional development. The Trust supports continuous development through clinical supervision, training, and appraisal, with ongoing career development opportunities available once in post such as Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Main Duties: - Responsible for the maintenance of your own skills and competencies required to undertake the role. - Assist the Registered nurse (RN) in the delivery of care to a designated patient group, demonstrating an ability to prioritise such care. - Determine the comfort of patients by talking and listening to them and building up a rapport. - Assist in providing personal hygiene of patients who are unable to do so themselves, including washing, bathing and assistance with using the toilet. - Assessing patients' health safety and wellbeing, escalating to appropriate colleagues if required - Assist in feeding/ giving drinks to patients who are unable to do so for themselves and complete food and fluid charts where necessary. - Ensure patient dignity supporting patients with tact, empathy, and persuasion. - Ensure that all care provided by yourself is documented appropriately. - Report any changes in patient condition to the RN. ### 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** - Knowledge and/or experience of care and related procedures. - Experience with manual handling of patients, using moving aids - Experience of completing patient care records **Desirable** - Experience and involvement of an improvement project/s - Experience of holding an area of responsibility relating to training/audit ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Caring - Adaptable to the changing needs of the service - Self-motivated - Enthusiastic - Approachable - Diplomatic - Innovative - Flexible - Responsible and accountable ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Care certificate is essential or be willing to work towards completing on successful appointment to the post. **Desirable** - IT Qualification ### Skills, Ability & Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge and/or experience of personal care and related procedures - Able to accurately update patient records for care delivered including changes to patient condition. - Ability to communicate factual information clearly and effectively with tact and empathy overcoming barriers to communication such as physical impairments or mental health/learning disabilities - Ability to carry out routine duties acting on own initiative with limited supervision. - Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative with access to supervision. - Understands confidentiality - Be able to participate in audits that are relevant to the role. - Ability to follow Trust policy's relevant to the role. - Ability to use IT skills proficiently on using relevant IT systems. - Ability to deliver (with appropriate training and competency assessment) a range of clinical/technical skills and care duties such as (but not limited to): clinical observations, blood glucose monitoring, ECG’s, simple wound dressings. - Able to supervise others e.g. T- level students, new B3 HCA’s, Band 2 HCA’s ## Documents - [jd band 3 hca (pdf, 592.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10557588) - [ps band 3 hca (pdf, 528.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10557587) - [application guide booklet (pdf, 511.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2617) - [guidance on pre-employment checks (pdf, 64.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=447) - [statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 43.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=448) ## 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.