Overview

Healthcare Assistant – Gravesham Community Hospital

Package Description

As a Healthcare Assistant you’ll be part of our valued LMN PCN Team based at Gravesham Community Hospital, Gravesend.

You will feel valued as an HCA within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

  • Plentiful onsite parking

  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday essentials, cashback options, and voucher offers

  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help with unexpected expenses and avoid high interest charges

  • Online and face-to-face support for your mental and physical wellbeing – including healthy recipes, activity challenges, trauma support, legal and life management guidance, career coaching and counselling

  • Access to eLearning, structured career pathways, and development opportunities through our Outstanding Learning Enterprise

  • An open, just culture where sharing ideas is encouraged and supported, backed by a minimum of £100,000 of ring-fenced annual innovation funding

  • Pride in working for an organisation committed to high clinical and quality standards, with the majority of services rated Good or Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission

  • Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

Job Introduction

We’re looking for enthusiastic and compassionate Healthcare Assistants to join our friendly and welcoming Community Nursing Team in Gravesend, North Kent, helping us continue to improve care for the communities we support.

Gravesham Community Hospital is located a short walk from St Georges Shopping Centre and surrounded by local cafés and food outlets, making it a convenient and enjoyable place to work.

This is a full-time (37.5 hours per week) opportunity.
The Community Nursing service operates 7 days per week, 08:00 – 20:00.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential, as you will be required to visit people in their homes.

Main Responsibilities

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will:

  • Support the community nursing team by delivering high-quality, person-centred care to patients in their own homes

  • Assist with a range of clinical tasks delegated by registered clinicians, such as observations, wound care support, catheter care, and general health monitoring

  • Help patients maintain independence by supporting daily living activities

  • Communicate effectively with patients, families, carers and colleagues, ensuring everyone feels informed and supported

  • Contribute to maintaining accurate records using electronic systems

  • Work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, demonstrating flexibility, compassion, and strong organisational skills

  • Ensure every patient’s experience is positive by delivering care with dignity, respect, and professionalism

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have:

  • Experience working as a Healthcare Assistant or support worker in a care, community, or clinical setting

  • A caring, patient-focused approach with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Confidence using IT systems, including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)

  • The ability to work flexibly as part of a 7-day service

  • A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.

Before you apply -
Register now and turn on alerts for jobs like this!

  • To apply for this position, receive job notifications and manage your applications, click "Register with Diversity Jobs Group".
  • To apply for this position without registering, click "Apply with Customer".

By registering you agree to our terms and conditions.

Apply with Customer

IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.