Care AssistantinCamberleyinCamberleyPUBLISHED FRI 14 MAR 2025

Job Overview

We are proud to offer a range of Care Assistant vacancies across all of our acute care directorates in Frimley Park Hospital.

Please note this is a front facing clinical role where a high level of spoken and written English language is required. We screen for use of AI software and if found your application will be automatically rejected.

About

To find out more about being a Care Assistant and what the role is before applying please attend one of our informal webinars. No need to register just access the session via the links below against each date:

Thursday 13th March 2025 1400-1430: Join now

Monday 17th March 2025 1800-1830: Join now

Main duties of the job

You will be primarily assisting the nursing team with care of the patients and will facilitate the smooth running of the department. You need to be driven and prepared to deliver high quality care and attention to detail. In this role you can look forward to a career full of development opportunities and the support from an excellent team of healthcare professionals – working alongside a reliable and friendly team.

You will also have access to a full program of training and development as well as a range of employee benefits.

When joining Frimley Health, we can offer you a supportive working environment as well as training and development to meet your needs. If you have an interest in providing exceptional patient care as well as developing your clinical knowledge and skills then please apply via this vacancy.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

This vacancy is linked to a Level 2 Apprenticeship. This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role. This is a great opportunity to gain a national recognised qualification while you are working and earning, which will support you in both this role and in your future career at Frimley Health.

You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar qualification.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To undertake agreed clinical activities including collection of urine and faecal samples, swabs, recording of fluid intake/output, changing of stomas and urine drainage bags, catheter care, recording of pulse/temperature/blood pressure/saturations and MET scoring, and to advise the team nurse of any changes in a patient’s condition
• To assist patients to eat and drink as required, assisting in menu selection and being aware of special diets and cultural requirements
• To enable and assist patients to maintain their personal hygiene
• To contribute to the safe movement of patients, using equipment to mobilise and move patients, after mobility assessment, to ensure patient comfort
• To answer the ward telephone as required
• To assist with discharge procedures
• To maintain patient records
• To tidy rooms and bed areas, and to clean and strip beds and remake after patient discharge, dealing with disposal of soiled linen as per policy
• To ensure ward equipment is suitably maintained and cleaned frequently.
  
  

Elements of the Job Description and the Person Specification may be screened at interview. We reserve the right to terminate the interview if it is felt these are not met.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 or above or equivalent
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of dealing with the general public
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in a healthcare setting
• Experience of manual handling
• Experience on a hospital ward
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate clearly
• Basic numeracy and literacy
• Ability to follow clear instructions and feedback from staff
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Willingness to work full shift patterns, including early/late/night shifts and weekends and bank holidays
  
  

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of the Trust
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and d