Healthcare Assistant

First Community is rated Outstanding by CQC – making us one of the top 2% of organisations providing NHS care in the country. Join a staff-owned social enterprise committed to providing first-rate care, through our first-rate people, offering first-rate value to our local community. We provide NHS Community services offering a friendly face with highly-rated, well run services, delivered by our skilled people. First Community is a great place to work if you want to have a career where you feel supported to develop your potential. We offer: High quality training and development including clinical supervision, mentorship, preceptorship support and career development Flexible working enabling you to have a good work life balance Inclusive and friendly rated as one of the best places to work in the NHS staff survey by colleagues working for First Community Well led our CQC inspection highlighted the quality of our leadership and management Flexible Retirement options including NHS Pensions Employee benefits including a car salary sacrific and child care vouchers. Are you interested in helping the NHS in response to the Covid 19 outbreak? First Community Health and Care is CQC Outstanding organisation that provides a range of community NHS health care services across the whole of East Surrey. We need your help to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak so please get in touch. We are looking for Health Care Assistants who are available straight awayto join us on a short term, emergency basis to support our existing workforce. This is a call to action to help the NHS in these unprecedented times as the NHS prepares itself for the spread of the Covid-19 virus (Coronavirus). Please apply and complete the supporting information section detailing as much as possible about your skills and experience so that we can identify where you could best support our community services. This will also enable us to prioritise your application. We are truly grateful for the ongoing response to this call. We are doing everything we can to enlist people as quickly as possible. All applicants MUST have the right to work in the United Kingdom and not fall into a category that advises you to self -isolate or shield. For further details please contact the recruitment team on 01737 775 473. Please note that interviews will be scheduled and undertaken via video lin Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a Work Permit) Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Border Agency requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit UK Border Agency website . Please note that this may not be applicable for all posts. Our preferred method of contact is by email. Please check your email regularly following the closing date. Successful candidates will be contacted within two weeks of the closing date. Recruitment and Retention Premium Recruitment and Retention Premium applies to the following posts: Health Visitors, Paediatric Therapists, Ward based Occupational Therapists, Podiatrists, Audiologists, Continence Nurses, Identified areas for Band 5 & 6 Staff Nurses and District Nurses. Successful applicants within the staff groups above will receive - £1000 upon commencement (payable in your first months’ salary) then; £1000 after 6 months service subject to satisfactory completion of your probationary period. Do note that repayment clauses apply - and will be provided, as required to the relevant post holders. Please note, due to high volumes of applicants, certain posts may close early. We recommend candidates apply early to avoid disappointment. 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. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89953581