East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Community Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 07 June 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join the King’s Lynn Primary Care Network; a community team made up of Community Nurses, Therapists and Community Matrons.
The role requires someone to deliver high standards of health care to patients within their own homes, care homes, the travelling community and in clinics, by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating packages of care.
Applicants should be good communicators, have obtained some experience of working within a healthcare setting, be caring, compassionate and deliver a high-standard of patient centred care.
Responsibilities
- Undertaking basic observations including blood pressure, oxygen saturation, blood glucose monitoring, pulse and respiration rates.
- Supporting administration of insulin for diabetic patients.
- Undertaking basic wound care, including dressing changes and simple wound assessment.
- Provision of basic pressure relieving equipment and pressure ulcer risk assessment and advice.
- Venepuncture.
- Simple catheter care.
- Ability to organise your day, adopt flexibility to different patient needs and that of the service.
- Venepuncture, supervising, transfers and passive exercises.
- Ensuring equipment is used safely, following relevant training and that it is maintained appropriately.
- Contributing to the requisitioning of supplies and equipment through electronic ordering systems.
- Working with qualified practitioners in group work/clinics as required.
- Demonstrating awareness and understanding of consent and gaining consent as appropriate following organisational policies.
- Sharing responsibility of indirect patient contact tasks such as answering telephones, arranging appointments, processing referrals, and inputting activity data.
- Undertaking health promotion / education such as smoking cessation, falls prevention etc.
- Utilising universal precautions and adhering to infection control policies when exposed to bodily fluids, infected material, blood products.
The service operates between 8.00am – 6.00pm, seven days a week, and you will be required to work shifts between these times.
About us
The selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse AI tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
Qualifications
- NVQ 2 Health and Social Care or equivalent knowledge and experience demonstrated in application.
- NVQ 3 Health and Social Care.
Experience
- Experience of working within a care setting.
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively using the English Language in both verbal and written forms.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Highly motivated.
- Ability to provide high standards of care.
- Tact & diplomacy.
- Empathy and sensitivity.
- Ability to use own initiative.
- Good observational and reporting skills.
- Ability to manage stressful situations.
- Team player.
- Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs.
- Overcome barriers to understanding, e.g., patient with hearing or cognitive impairment.
- Have basic IT and standard keyboard skills.
- Ability to kneel, bend and stoop and work in cramped environments.
- Ability to manoeuvre limbs of around 5-6kg.
- Ability to manoeuvre patients using handling aids.
- Awareness of technology.
Personal Attributes / Behaviours
- Must hold a full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
Other
- Able to communicate effectively using the English language in both verbal and written forms.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
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