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:	Cambridge, CB21 5EF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	4 Nov 2026

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Summary

Are you a motivated, resilient, mindful, compassionate person with a can-do attitude who wants to make a difference in people’s lives? Can you promote engagement in groups, activities, treatment and health for our patients through positive role modelling? If so, we are looking for you at George Mackenzie House!

George Mackenzie House is a secure unit for male and female patients who require admission to a safe environment where they can be supported to address their needs and develop the skills required to transition back into the community. We work collaboratively with patients, applying the principles of compassion-focused therapy and providing structure to their days through engagement in therapeutic activities that form a key part of their treatment plans.

As an HCA on George Mackenzie House, you will take a frontline role in supporting patients through their recovery journey, inspiring hope, motivation and forward-focused thinking. You will help meet daily needs while empowering patients to be as independent as possible. You will encourage and facilitate participation in health, fitness and therapeutic activities, work as part of a wider MDT, and support nursing staff by implementing individualised care plans.

This can be a challenging role, but it is equally rewarding, and we would love to welcome the right candidate into our supportive team.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team you will provide support and practical assistance to service users for them to regain confidence in their skills and abilities to enable a successful re integration into the community.

You should demonstrate abilities to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Ability to form relationships with patients and colleagues which are mutuality respectful, facilitate and support information sharing and understanding to achieve agreed goals

The role includes listening and talking with patients/relatives/carers, observing patients’ behaviour and promotion of safety consideration of the unit and individual.

To provide and co-ordinate meaningful group and activity sessions for service users. To develop activities with individuals and support people to use these.

To offer group-based sessions with a focus on skill development/social inclusion/communication/education and recovery. To work alongside the nursing team in provision of treatment interventions.

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 for new employees to CPFT 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 refer to the attached job description and personal specification for full details of responsibilities.

To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users.

Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on individual resources and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.

Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief to inspire and instil confidence

Uses own initiative and job-related training in deciding on the approach and interventions required when working with a service user in delivering support, although supervision is available.

Teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques

Support service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk.

Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behaviour towards other multi-disciplinary team members, service users and carers.

Always Have a focus on the rights of service users.

Ensure that recovery goals are integrated into the Trusts CPA process and are reviewed on a regular basis, liaising closely with primary nurses as necessary.

Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.

To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.

Support other members of the multi-disciplinary team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required.

To demonstrate care and compassion in your work.

This advert closes on Friday 9 Oct 2026

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