Bank Contract - Healthcare Assistant - Inpatient Ward in Crowborough

Are you looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference to patients during their recovery? Rated as a CQC Outstanding hospital, Horder Healthcare is looking for you to join our Dufferin Ward team, providing exceptional care and support to patients throughout their stay. As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll work within a close-knit, highly skilled team, ensuring every patient receives compassionate, high-quality care in a safe and welcoming environment.

Playing a pivotal role, where no one day is the same, this is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and empathetic candidate to join our team of clinical and nursing experts in providing exceptional care to our highly valued patients.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Support patients with personal hygiene and daily living activities, respecting their privacy and dignity.
• Assist with dietary needs, unpacking and packing on admission and discharge, and help patients dress.
• Undertake observations, record results using NEWS, and escalate abnormalities or concerns.
• Perform basic nursing tasks such as urinalysis, BMI calculation, measuring for anti-embolism stockings, and recording fluid input/output.
• Take capillary blood samples for point-of-care testing (POCT).
• Escort patients to other departments and theatre.
• Report any changes in patients’ conditions to a Registered Nurse or Therapist.
• Assist with administrative duties, including answering calls and relaying messages accurately.
• Practice safe patient handling techniques and maintain infection control standards.
• Attend mandatory training and complete relevant e-learning.

About you:

• You will be a passionate and empathetic individual, with experience of having worked with a variety of patients.
• You will be personal and approachable, with a real motivation to support everyone who walks through The Horder Centre doors.
• Excellent communication skills, to help build those all-important and respected relationships with your team and our patients.
• Prior UK based experience is essential, preferably within a hospital setting.
• Proactive and forward thinking, with a passion for continued learning.
• A Care Certificate and/or NVQ Level 2 or 3 is desirable.
• Ensure that your working ethic remains aligned to our core values as a group: Caring, Friendly, Quality, Integrity and Pride.

Location: The Horder Centre, Crowborough

Contract Type: Bank, Zero Hour Contract

Shift Patterns: Day Shift Availability

Salary: £12.45 per hour to increase to £12.71 per hour from 1 April 2026

Right to work in the UK. In accordance with Home Office guidance, successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencing employment. We have assessed this role and it does not meet the criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. As such, we will not be accepting any visa sponsorships for this role, and candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK independently, without sponsorship from Horder Healthcare.

At Horder Healthcare, we are proud to champion and celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in all areas of our business. We are committed to creating an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to protected characteristics by applicable law.

As a disability confident employer, we are pleased to offer our full support should you require an alternative method of applying or any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. Due to the nature of work here at Horder Healthcare, and to ensure that we remain committed to our Safeguarding policy, any applicant upon an initial offer of employment will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References and Occupational Health checks will also be taken up before appointment.