Healthcare Assistant | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

We are currently looking for a full-time Health Care Assistant, to work as a valued member of the s3 Eating Disorder team, carrying out duties in order to meet the needs of our service users.

You will be trained and supervised by registered professionals and will be expected to follow a plan of care based on the specific needs of the service users.

This is a great opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our service providing care in a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit aged 18-65 in Addenbrookes Hospital. Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement.

Are you ready to take on the challenge of this exciting role and help to make a real difference to people’s lives?

Responsibilities

1. Work on the wards to provide care for adults with physical and / or mental health challenges.
2. To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
3. Support service users to overcome barriers they experience because of their mental or physical health.
4. Work closely with nurses and other practitioners to provide a therapeutic programme of care.
5. Report on service users\’ conditions to nurses and other practitioners.
6. Provide information to service users using persuasion, reassurance, tact, and empathy.
7. Provide the necessary physical care to service users to help them complete daily living activities, i.e. personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations, whilst demonstrating empathy, dignity, respect and compassion.
8. Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and report results to the nurse in charge.
9. Provide social activities, emotional support and stability to service users to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.
10. Empower service users by ensuring that they receive relevant information about their treatment, medication, available services, advocacy services, ward routines and safety procedures under the guidance of a registered nurse.

Qualifications

• Experience of working within health or social care.
• Experience of caring for and supporting adults with mental health illness.
• Demonstrate a commitment to high quality care & service provision.
• Good communication skills.
• The ability to work flexibly and as part of a team, as well as individually.

Additional information

You may be required to undertake and successfully complete the new national Care Certificate within a 12 weeks’ timeframe if you meet our criteria. You will receive full training and support and The Care Certificate sets out 15 national care standards that must be achieved by all health and social care staff to demonstrate that they have the skills and knowledge needed to provide safe and excellent quality of care. It is a foundation programme which can provide the first steps to career development within the NHS.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

1. Work on the wards to provide care for adults with physical and / or mental health challenges.

2. To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

3. Support service users to overcome barriers they experience because of their mental or physical health.

4. Work closely with nurses and other practitioners to provide a therapeutic programme of care.

5. Report on service users\’ conditions to nurses and other practitioners.

6. Provide information to service users using persuasion, reassurance, tact, and empathy.

7. Provide the necessary physical care to service users to help them complete daily living activities, i.e. personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations, whilst demonstrating empathy, dignity, respect and compassion.

8. To undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and report results to the nurse in charge.

9. To provide social activities, emotional support and stability to service users to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.

10. Empower service users by ensuring that they receive relevant information about their treatment, medication, available services, advocacy services, ward routines and safety procedures under the guidance of a registered nurse.

This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Nov 2025