Healthcare Assistant | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Peterborough, PE3 9GZ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	14 Sept 2026
Closing date:	14 Oct 2026

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Summary

We are excited to advertise our Healthcare Assistant post for our Recovery ward, Oak 4 based in Peterborough at the Edith Cavell site. The Cavell is an accessible site, a café on site and a beautiful modern design with new wards.

We need a charismatic, energetic, enthusiastic staff nurse to support the provision of evidence-based treatment and work with our multi-disciplinary team to support our service users in their recovery. On our Recovery ward we care for our local population experiencing serious mental illness.

Oak 4 maintains a recovery focus and emphasis on moving towards the community, by providing an environment for individuals to continue to engage with the goals identified throughout their admission to hospital. We work closely with Social Care and provide increased assessment and support around accessing housing and support packages.

We need a charismatic, energetic, enthusiastic health care assistant to support the provision of evidence-based treatment and work with our multi-disciplinary team to support our service users in their recovery.

The wards bold model requires staff to have a commitment to teamwork, a sense of accountability, and an ability to work well under pressure when required.

If you are successful, we will support you in providing quality evidence-based nursing care for our service users with mental and physical health needs. As a Health Care Assistant, you will interact frequently with carers and families providing support and advice where appropriate.

You will be working as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and will be responsible for tasks under the general supervision of a registered nurse including assisting in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care on a rotational shift basis.

We will expect you to have a good level of knowledge of local, national policies and legislation which govern current service provision.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Please see job description and personal specification for full details:

• To promote a positive service user experience throughout their stay through proactive listening, being responsive to issues raised and through resolving issues and concerns raised by service users with colleagues and senior members of the team.

• To be responsible for maintaining and conducting oneself in a professional manner towards service users, carers, colleagues, and other agencies, at all times. To participate in working collaboratively with other Trust services and external agencies to provide seamless care for service users.

• To provide service users with personal care, where and when required, and demonstrate empathy, dignity, respect, and compassion at all times.

• To understand the importance of the relatives/carers contribution to care and conversing with the service users and their relatives/carers, establishing their needs, and assisting them as necessary. Ensuring that any entries made by the post holder in the nursing notes are current, relevant, and accurate, and the content will then be reported & counter signed by the registered nurse or relevant professional.

• Working in partnership with the service user to access a range of activities and services to maintain their independence.

• Promoting healthy activities and lifestyle choices.

• To promote and support registered staff with the physical health, comfort, and wellbeing of service users, including physical observations and taking blood pressure, temperature and pulse under their guidance and supervision.

• Empower service users by ensuring that they receive relevant information about their treatment, medication, available services, advocacy services, ward routines and safety procedures under the guidance of a registered nurse.

• To ensure food and fluids are served to service users according to policy

This advert closes on Monday 21 Sep 2026

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