hca, Healthcare Nursing

Responsibilities

• Deliver care in line with the Care Certificate standards and support junior staff in achieving competency. Provide compassionate, patient‑centred care, maintaining privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and a safe environment at all times.
• Assist registered nurses with delegated clinical and personal care duties including toileting, hygiene, mouth and eye care, nutrition support, feeding assistance, and maintaining patients' comfort and wellbeing. Safely support moving and handling using approved techniques and equipment in accordance with Trust policy and risk assessments.
• Undertake and accurately record patient observations such as temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respirations, urinalysis, fluid balance, height and weight, promptly reporting abnormalities to a registered nurse.
• Perform delegated clinical tasks following training and competency sign‑off, including ECGs, venepuncture, blood glucose monitoring, MRSA screening, catheter removal, peripheral cannula removal (as per policy), specimen collection and transport, allergy recording on EPR, and enhanced patient observation.
• Support patients during procedures, escort stable patients as required, and provide therapeutic engagement under enhanced care guidelines.
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic, harm‑free care.
• Working under the supervision of the qualified nursing staff, the HCSW will participate and support the members of the multidisciplinary team in delivering high quality patient care.
• Band 3 HCSWs will be expected to carry out specific skills depending upon the requirements of the clinical area; please refer to the job description and person specification for more details.

Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria. You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc.; therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form.

If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this – otherwise, this may delay your pre‑employment checks.

In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. You will only be contacted via e‑mail/SMS if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e‑mail regularly.

We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. If this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person‑centred care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes the three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area;
Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust;
Surrey Council County. Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us. It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment.

By bringing together our expertise, we can improve…