UCR Care North- Healthcare Assistant | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust

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Exciting opportunity - Come and join us.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the North Urgent Community Response Team. We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant who enjoys the diversity and variety of  caring for patients in crises within their own home, as well as supporting people to have the best possible quality end of life care.

This role involves providing personal care, wound care, providing prescribed equipment and working alongside colleagues to respond to service needs.  Good communication and collaboration as part of the Urgent Community Response nursing and therapy team is essential. You will have regular supervision and professional development opportunities.

Urgent Community Response is a short term service, we make people safe and refer them on to other appropriate services as needed. Our focus is primarily admission avoidance to secondary care, keeping people safe in their own homes, including people at the end of their life, and also supporting discharges from secondary care or in-patient units.

Urgent Community Response also offers opportunities with working in our Virtual Ward Service to support acutely unwell patients in their own home with virtual monitoring and phlebotomy.

We are recruiting an additional Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to the Urgent Community Response team at this Outstanding organisation. Working alongside our existing HCAs, our nurses and therapists, you will assist in ensuring the continued successful delivery of this service. 

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Main Duties & Responsibilities.

As part of the Urgent Community Response Team, you will be required:

• To contribute to the delivery of care pathways for patients with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.

• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital

• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support early discharge from hospital

• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

This advert closes on Sunday 11 Oct 2026