Job overview

New to Care, looking for a new career as a Nursing Assistant

We are looking for compassionate and caring individuals to join our permanent or bank teams at East Surrey Hospital. We currently have vacancies across the Trust within the medical and surgical divisions as well as our emergency department. 

We have a bespoke training package developed to meet the needs of both those new to care and those with previous experience.

We are committed to your development throughout your career and have apprenticeship pathways that can lead to roles such as Registered Nursing Associate and Registered Nurse.

All we ask is you bring with you your compassion, care, kindness and a can-do approach, which are attributes we know will help you to thrive in our organisation.

The nursing assistant role is a valued role within our teams, when we asked colleagues to describe the impact they have they used the following words:

• Invaluable
• Supportive
• Inspiring
• Irreplaceable
• Essential

If you want to make a difference to our patients and their families every day and go home feeling proud, valued and knowing you have made an impact on someone’s day, we want to hear from you.

We offer you the opportunity to join one of our friendly teams, whereby you will be supported by both your manager and our education colleagues. This will enable you to grow and flourish to reach your full potential.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.