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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Health Care Assistant - Integrated Sexual Health and HIV

The closing date is 17 August 2025

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Job summary

Looking to build your career in Sexual Health and HIV care? Want to break into a fast-paced, progressive area of healthcare? We've got the perfect opportunity for you.

The Jefferiss Wing at St Mary's Hospital is on the lookout for a proactive, empathetic, and non-judgmental Healthcare Assistant to join our forward-thinking nursing team within the Integrated Sexual Health Service.

Why Join Us?

  • Work in one of the UK's leading sexual health centres.
  • Gain specialist experience in HIV, contraception, and sexual health care.
  • Get access to top-tier training and ongoing development.
  • Be part of a supportive, innovative team that values growth and excellence.

What You'll Do:

  • Support clinics with sample collection and processing, phlebotomy, microscopy, and chaperoning procedures.
  • Support our expert clinicians in specialist clinics like IUT (Intrauterine Contraception).
  • Make a real difference in people's lives every day.

What We Are Looking For:

  • Excellent communicator (written & spoken).
  • Confident using your initiative in a clinical setting.
  • Experience in phlebotomy or sexual health screening? Great! If not, we'll train you.
  • Above all - empathetic, inclusive, and passionate about patient care.

Want to know more? Call us for an informal chat - we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

  • To work across both clinics in Jefferiss Wing - The Sexual Health clinic and The HIV Outpatient Department (The Wharfside Clinic).
  • To carry out care and treatment tasks, delegated from professionally qualified staff, requiring a range of technical ability.
  • Ensure the clinic environment is safe and clean.
  • Fulfil any clerical duties.
  • To supervise less experienced Nursing Assistants.
  • To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and provide support for any area specified by the coordinating nurse on duty.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

Details

Date posted

01 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£30,546 to £32,207 a year pa inclusive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

290-WCCS-2089

Job locations

St Marys Hospital

London

W2 1NY


Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • QCF Level 3 in Health or equivalent (NVQ3, Advanced Apprenticeship) Numerate
  • Able to speak and write English to an appropriate standard to fulfil the job requirements.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate a clear insight into the role.
  • Up to date experience - worked within an acute care setting within the last 18 months
  • Willing to learn venepuncture and other relevant skills

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential

  • Ability to work well within the team.
  • Ability to demonstrate caring approach.
  • Good communication skills - both oral and written.

Desirable

  • Ability to work on own initiative.
  • Ability to perform venepuncture
Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • QCF Level 3 in Health or equivalent (NVQ3, Advanced Apprenticeship) Numerate
  • Able to speak and write English to an appropriate standard to fulfil the job requirements.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate a clear insight into the role.
  • Up to date experience - worked within an acute care setting within the last 18 months
  • Willing to learn venepuncture and other relevant skills

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential

  • Ability to work well within the team.
  • Ability to demonstrate caring approach.
  • Good communication skills - both oral and written.

Desirable

  • Ability to work on own initiative.
  • Ability to perform venepuncture

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

St Marys Hospital

London

W2 1NY


Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

St Marys Hospital

London

W2 1NY


Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Nurse

Professor Matthew Grundy-Bowers

Matthew.grundybowers@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

01 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£30,546 to £32,207 a year pa inclusive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

290-WCCS-2089

Job locations

St Marys Hospital

London

W2 1NY


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