Healthcare Assistant

Healthcare Assistant

The closing date is 07 April 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a Health Care Assistant to join our team. The service aims to provide an excellent standard of person‑centred planned and unplanned nursing intervention to patients in their homes and is part of an integrated service that supports patients to remain in their home environment. The successful candidate will deliver safe, effective care for the patient experience.

As a Health Care Assistant you will work closely with the multi‑disciplinary team in order to support the service and have a high focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience. You will need to be enthusiastic, innovative and highly motivated. Your personal qualities will mean that you are flexible to the needs of the service and deliver a high standard of care in a supportive and forward‑thinking environment.

The service is provided from 8am to 6pm seven days a week, over a shift pattern. Weekends, bank holidays are a requirement of the job. Car owner/driver and current driving licence essential or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Main duties of the job

• Deliver safe, effective care for the patient experience.
• Support patients to remain in their home environment.
• Be professionally accountable for the delivery of care.
• Utilise technology to enable you to update records as you go.

Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from hospital, be terminally ill or have physical disabilities.

The service aims to provide an excellent standard of care that supports patients. In Northamptonshire you will work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team in order to support the service and focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 in healthcare

Experience

• Previous experience in a caring environment/role
• Community experience

Skills

• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstration of effective team working
• Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment
• Understanding of safeguarding/incident reporting in healthcare

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust