Healthcare Assistant - Harty Ward
Healthcare Assistant - Harty Ward
Job Introduction As a Healthcare Assistant, you'll be part of our valued team based on Harty Ward at Sheppey Community Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £24,785 with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Working for an organisation that has been shortlisted in the Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2023 for Best Equality and Diversity Project and Best Social Responsibility Programme
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
You'll join a team who are focused on exceeding the needs of patients within our Harty Ward and will support the delivery of care to a range of complex patients which include: meeting the clinical need of patients with life limiting conditions, supporting rapid discharge for those patients reaching end of life and helping prevent any unnecessary hospital admissions to a patient in crisis.
The work is varied and interesting. Striving to successfully provide healthcare can be both challenging and rewarding and our services are developing to meet the needs of the local population.
Main Responsibilities Within this role you will:
- Communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary team, medical, clinical nursing colleagues and staff from other support departments
- Actively seek ways to improve the quality of the service provided.
- Recognise when to refer to the trained nurse, contribute to the assessment and care planning process by communicating any concerns you may have or that are expressed by a patient or carer to the registered nurse.
- Report changes in patients conditions to qualified nurses and ensure it is documented. Ensure all interventions are appropriately recorded and care plans are maintained to required standards.
- Actively promote the health and wellbeing of patients attending the department.
- Remove dressings and applying simple dressings when trained and competent.
It is desirable that you have experience dealing with the general public within a healthcare setting however it is not essential that you have worked in a care setting before as we provide full training when in post.
Attached documents • Band 2 Ward healthcare assistant.pdf
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Healthcare Assistant - Harty Ward • Salary £24,785
- Frequency Annual
- Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/116242/20605
- Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
- Closing Date 4 October, 2026
- Job Category HCRG - Additional Clinical Services
- Business Unit HCRG - North Kent
- Location Sheerness, United Kingdom
- Posted on 11 September, 2026
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