Job summary
- Main area
- Gynaecology and Early pregnancy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 23 hours per week (11.5 hours shifts to cover night and day shifts over a seven day week)
- Job ref
- 241-421FD-25
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bolton Hospital
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £24,465 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Health Care Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 2
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a positive, enthusiastic and compassionate Health Care Assistant to join our team of highly experienced and compassionate team of health professionals, who are experts at caring for people within the speciality of gynaecology and early pregnancy. We have a wide range of patients who have either come in as an emergency admission, admission through our dedicated Gynaecology/early pregnancy Assessment unit, accident and emergency, GP services and other health care providers. If you have a passion for Gynaecology/early pregnancy and would like to learn new skills within an area that is passionate about helping Women, then we would like to hear from you.
After one years experience in the speciality and meeting the relevant competences you will progress to band 3 AFC .
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who has experience in health care who has a genuine desire to work within the speciality of gynaecology and early pregnancy. You will be highly motivated, have excellent communication skills with a drive to give patients the highest standard of care.
As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Working for our organisation
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provide services across the north west side of the Greater Manchester area ranging from hospital services in Bolton to community services across Bolton, Salford, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 5,700 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare. The Trust offer a range of flexible working patterns to enable our staff to balance their work and personal life.
Our Trust is a great place to work and we are keen to ensure that all our employees have the right values in order that we can provide the best service to our patients. These values are very important to us, and as a potential candidate you should be made aware that we test for these throughout the whole assessment/recruitment and selection process, and will only interview and recruit individuals who demonstrate these values through their application and behaviour.
Details of our Values can be found on our website link http://www.boltonft.nhs.uk/about-us/trust-values/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Post requirements of a band 2 health care assistant with progression to a band 3 after one years experience and meeting competences. Please see job description and personal specification for further details to ensure you meet minimum criteria for this application.
Person specification
Communication
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Basic computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- GCSE English and Maths
Education/Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of self motivation and to use initiative
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to work well with people of all levels
- Able to follow written procedures accurately
Desirable criteria
- Care certificate/Willingness to work towards the care certificate
- Venepuncture
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Caring and compassionate
- Working with integrity
- Work well as part of a team
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Donna Hennessy
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 390718
- Additional information
Matron Tina Gundlach-Clare 01204 390903
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