Healthcare Assistant Medical and Surgical Outpatients in Salisbury

Main area: Outpatients

Grade: Band 3

Contract: 6 months (Fixed Term)

Hours:

• Part time
• Other

23 hours per week (May include evening and weekend working across multiple areas in the organisation).

Job ref: 269-SFT9660

Employer: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS Site Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Town Salisbury

Salary: £24,937 – £26,598 per annum pro rata if part time

Closing date: 31/03/2026 23:59

Healthcare Assistant Medical and Surgical Outpatients

Band 3

Job overview

Have you considered nursing in Outpatients as a Healthcare Assistant? If yes, we have a part time vacant position that may give you the opportunity to develop new skills and support your work/life balance.

The Main Outpatient Team would welcome applications from a Healthcare Assistant who enjoys working independently and working within a team, in being instrumental in providing patient focused care. The role is located in our main outpatient department as well as supporting consultant led activity in the Breast Care Unit and Clarendon Suite where we support elderly medicine clinics.

The successful candidate will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative as well as willing to take on a variety of duties whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail.

We ask that the candidate applying for this post have a current NHS Care Certificate and a Health and Social Care Qualification at Level 3 with current secondary care experience.

We strongly suggest you arrange an informal visit to meet the team and gain a full understanding of the role.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept those who need sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

Highlighted below are some of the nursing skills needed for a fast‑paced working area such as Outpatients:

• The ability to work both independently and as part of the wider Multidisciplinary Team
• Supporting and assisting your consultant colleagues in the smooth running of their clinics.
• Acting as a chaperone.
• Being able to undertake baseline measurements; BMI, blood pressures, blood sugar monitoring, ECG’s, Urinalysis and after training spirometry, FeNO, venepuncture and/or cannulation.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On‑site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Person specification

Experience

• Good communication skills, able to communicate respectfully verbally and in writing.
• Ability to learn new skills
• Significant experience in a Healthcare setting as a Healthcare Assistant.
• Recording ECGs
• Undertake Venepuncture and Cannulation
• Experience within link role for specialist area – e.g. falls, infection control etc.
• Supporting new starters, including inducting them to the clinical environment, supporting with competency and care certificate completion.
• Secondary Care Experience

Qualifications

• Care Certificate
• Venepuncture and Cannulation
• Clinical Observation Qualification
• NVQ/QCF Level 3 Health and Social Care
• GCSE Maths or Numeracy and Literacy Level 2

Benefits

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. Take a look at our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for more detailed information https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/media/2lfatov2/employee-value-proposition-document-v12-final.pdf

These include but aren\’t limited to:

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years.
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life\’s challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• 40% bus discount exclusive to SFT employees (period tickets only)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fees and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please note – Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa eg those with graduate visa\’s) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION

If this job requires you to have a DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £16 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name: Abbie Marchment
Job title: Senior Sister
Email address: abbie.marchment@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01722 336262
Additional Information

If you wish to discuss this opportunity and arrange an informal visit which is highly recommended as part of the application process please contact Senior Sister Abbie Marchment or Sister Amrita Gurung on 01722 336262 ext 2336 or 4248.