Healthcare Assistant (HCA) – NHS Experience Required

📍 Location: UK-wide 💳 Salary:Competitive Rates 🏷️ Sector: NHS & Private Sector Workforce Solutions

Temporary | NHS Experience Required | Weekly Pay

Role Overview

Healthcare Recruiters Ltd (HCR) is seeking compassionate, reliable, and experienced Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) with previous NHS experience to support patients across NHS healthcare settings in the UK.

Successful candidates will provide high-quality, person-centred care, assist with daily living activities, and work alongside clinical teams to maintain patient safety, dignity, and wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assist patients with personal care, hygiene, dressing, nutrition, hydration, and mobility.
  • Promote patient dignity, independence, privacy, and choice.
  • Undertake and accurately record clinical observations, such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and oxygen saturation, where trained and authorised.
  • Monitor patients’ physical wellbeing and promptly report any changes to the nursing team.
  • Maintain accurate patient records and care documentation.
  • Follow NHS policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, infection prevention, confidentiality, and health and safety.
  • Work collaboratively with nurses and other healthcare professionals to deliver safe, effective patient care.

Essential Requirements

  • NHS Experience: Previous experience working as a Healthcare Assistant within an NHS hospital or healthcare setting.
  • UK Experience: Minimum of 6 months’ relevant UK HCA experience.
  • Enhanced DBS: Valid Enhanced DBS certificate, preferably registered with the DBS Update Service.
  • Right to Work: Valid documentation confirming the right to work in the UK.
  • Good communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
  • A compassionate, professional, and reliable approach to patient care.

What We Offer

  • Flexible Shifts: Opportunities to choose shifts based on your availability and service requirements.
  • Fast-Track Registration: Target onboarding within 72 hours, subject to completion and verification of all compliance requirements.
  • Weekly Pay: Weekly payment for completed and approved shifts, in line with agreed terms.
  • Referral Bonus: Additional earning opportunities through our staff referral scheme.
  • Dedicated Recruitment Support: Assistance with registration, compliance, and shift bookings.

Join our team and make a meaningful difference in the lives of the people we support.

Region

Locations to Target – NHS & Priory

North West England

Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Blackpool, Lancaster, Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Stockport, Wigan, Liverpool, Chester, Crewe, Macclesfield, Cheadle, Altrincham

North East England

Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Northumberland

Yorkshire & Humber

Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Hull, York, Beverley, Market Weighton

Midlands

Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Mansfield, Northampton, Worcester, Arnold, Newark, Barnt Green

London & Hertfordshire

Central London, North London, South London, East London, West London, Croydon, Harrow, Ealing, Hammersmith, Romford, Ilford, Tooting, Hemel Hempstead

South East England

Oxford, Reading, Slough, Guildford, Chertsey, Redhill, Crawley, Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne, Canterbury, Ashford, Maidstone, Dartford, Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Southampton, Aylesbury, High Wycombe

East of England

Kneesworth, Cambridge, Peterborough, Stevenage, Bedford

North Wales

Wrexham, Deeside, Bangor, Holyhead, Llandudno, Rhyl, Holywell

South Wales

Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bridgend, Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil, Llanelli, Carmarthen, Neath, Port Talbot, Abergavenny, Llanarth Court