Job vacancy: NRC Senior Healthcare Assistant, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Loughborough

Job summary

Main area: Rehabilitation
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 164-7776579

Employer: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: National Rehabilitation Centre
Town: Loughborough
Salary: £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/03/2026 23:59

NRC Senior Healthcare Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 3

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Personal care and clinical duties

· Demonstrates care and compassion to patients, carers and relatives to help ensure high quality person centred patient care is delivered at all times.

· Assist patients with activities of daily living. This will typically include all fundamental nursing care including the feeding, bathing and repositioning of the patient under the supervision of an RHP.

· Provide support to the RHP and, where appropriate, other members of the Clinical Team as required.

· To co-operate with and maintain good relationships with team colleagues and staff in other disciplines that are attending and treating clients to maximise patient care.

· To support new starters within the clinical environment

· Maintain good relationships and an empathic approach to the patient’s’ family, relatives and carers and refer them to an RHP for any questions they may have on the patient’s condition, or for any suggestions or complaints that they wish to raise.

· Undertake care as delegated by the RHP and adhering to the Trust’s policies and procedures to promote the patient’s health, safety and wellbeing. Report changes or concerns to the patient’s condition to the RHP,

· Assists with the safe transfer of all patients between clinical areas

· Communicates/liaises with members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure high standards of patient care.

· To maintain patient confidentiality at all times and follow information governance policies and procedures.

· To participate in maintaining accurate and up-to-date records, e.g. food and fluid intake charts to ensure effective communication.

· To follow NUH policies and procedures to ensure maintenance of safe working practices for patients and colleagues.

· To follow work area procedures for the use of supplies and equipment in order to promote the effective and efficient use of resources, equipment and resources

· Share responsibility for key aspects of housekeeping and stock control demonstrating a good awareness of cost efficiency and safety.

· To report observed changes in the patients’ physical/psychological needs to the RHP.

· Performs a range of clinical duties and report results to RHP, e.g. urinalysis, blood pressure, pregnancy testing, patient observations, supervision of patients and similar activities.

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

· To deal with questions and enquiries from patients, carers and relatives e.g. on the clients’ condition or for any suggestions or complaints that they wish to raise. Where appropriate, refer these to a RHP.

Undertakes routine and regular checks on patient trolleys and bed spaces ensuring all relevant equipment is clean, in good working order and intact and reports faults to Registered Nurse.

Person specification

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Essential criteria

Achieved or working towards

Desirable criteria

Previous experience working in a healthcare environment

Communication

Essential criteria

Verbal skills for communication with patients, public and the wider MDT

Desirable criteria

IT literate with Nerve Centre or other electronic patient record

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: If you have a disability and find online job applications difficult, you can use an easy read application form instead.

To get this form, please email [email protected] and ask for an easy read application.

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
Start an Apprenticeship
Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

For more details visit; School leaving age - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

International Recruitment: If you are applying for a role with us from outside of the UK then please read the guidance on applying for a health or social care job in the UK from abroad.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
For more information about our organisation and the career opportunities available, please visit our website and/or follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Eleanor Bragan
Job title: Ward Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07483124290
Additional information: Please visit the rehabilitation team which is currently location at Linden Lodge, city hospital, before it moves to the National Rehabilitation Centre which is anticipated to be in the coming week

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NRC Senior Healthcare Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Communication

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

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Applicant requirements

Documents to download

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