Bank Healthcare Assistant - COVID-19 in Birmingham

“Defined by our people”

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, employing over 20,000 staff and treating over 2.8 million people per year. We have more than 2,700 beds across all our sites with the main hospital services being based at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and other services based at Birmingham Chest Clinic and Solihull community health premises.

As the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and you may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis, as a result of development or reorganisation of Trust services.

UHB has an international reputation for its quality of care, information technology, clinical education and training and research and provides a wide range of services including highly specialised regional and national services. The Trust is a designated Major Trauma Centre, operates Europe’s largest Critical Care Unit and Organ Transplant Service and, through its hosting of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, provides a full range of medical services to injured military personnel.

Our core purposes are excellent clinical quality, patient experience, workforce, research and innovation and our vision is “To Build Healthier Lives”.

Please apply early as vacancies may close before the given closing date when sufficient applications are received.

For specific enquiries regarding this vacancy, please see the Contact Details section below in the first instance. For general enquiries, please use Switchboard: 0121 627 2000 and for Non-Medical (inc. Nursing) Ext. 16800, Doctors & Dentists Ext. 18384 or 18395, Bank posts 0121 371 8280.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

We are recruiting staff to support our current workforce, as the NHS prepares for the spread of Covid-19 virus (Coronavirus) and the opening of the Nightingale Hospital at the Birmingham NEC.

Just let us know about your skills and experience when you make an application, so we can see how you can support our services in these unprecedented times.

We are now looking for Healthcare Assistants with at least 6 months experience in a care environment.

As the UHB In House Staff Bank service, known as UHB Plus, we are able to offer you the flexibility to choose when you work (subject to shift availability) and offer a variety of clinical areas to work in.

Are you a naturally caring person who loves to make a difference to others no matter how small that difference might be?

Are you the type of person who respects other people, treats them fairly and accepts them for who they are?

Do you like getting things done?

And are you known for being hard-working and reliable?

We want our patients to receive the best possible care from people for whom nothing is too much trouble. So if you recognise yourself in the description above and it excites you to think you could be one of our team caring for our patients on a daily basis, we would love to hear from you.

We can teach you the skills of a good Healthcare Assistant what we want is the right kind of person who will thrive in this important work.

Here’s what one of our Healthcare Assistants says about the job: “For me the job means putting yourself out there for patients and the team –truly caring about what you do and the impact you have” As part of our commitment to you, as a member of the UHB Team, we will provide full training when you commence employment with us.

In addition to a structured induction programme, successful candidates can undertake the Care Certificate. This involves undertaking both practical and written work to achieve competencies with a required time scale.

To complete this work in the required timescale you will need to commit to a minimum number of shifts. Further details of this will be given at testing and interview.

To be shortlisted for this post, you would need to demonstrate in your application form that you possess the strengths and qualities that we are looking for and demonstrate any relevant experience or transferrable skills.

In addition to demonstrating that you possess the above; applicants who are shortlisted, would be required to attend Literacy and Numeracy Testing

Please note: interviews will be held via video call.