Health Care Assistant - Day Surgery Unit | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Southend University Hospital NHS Trust
Salary:	£25,760 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Westcliff on Sea, SS0 0RY
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	17 Jul 2026
Closing date:	16 Aug 2026

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Summary

Are you enthusiastic, motivated, and ready to make a real difference in patient care? We’re recruiting for HCAs to join our friendly and dynamic team in the Day Surgery Unit based at Southend Hospital

Our departments provides high-quality, safe, and effective care.

You will be part of a busy, supportive environment, working with surgical patients throughout their peri-operative and post-operative journey. We cover a range of specialities.

We are proactive in supporting your training and professional development, offering ongoing learning opportunities to help you grow. To succeed, you’ll need to be a clear communicator, a team player, and bring a professional yet approachable attitude.

So, if this sounds like the role for you, please apply today.

If successful, you will:

• Be responsible for ensuring the highest possible standards of cleanliness within the clinical area and ensure all staff are familiar with escalation procedures for additional cleaning.

• Be accountable by making sure you can answer for your actions or omissions.

• Promote and uphold the privacy, dignity, rights, health and wellbeing of people who use health and care services.

• Work in collaboration with other colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare, care and support.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Are you looking for an exciting role in using your unique qualities? Then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description. We look forward to your application.

Please note we cannot offer Visa Sponsorship for this role and we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

This advert closes on Monday 20 Jul 2026

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