The Royal Berkshire
Healthcare Assistant
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Start Your NHS Career With Us — Your Future Begins at Royal Berkshire Hospital
If you’re passionate about helping others and ready to take your first step into a meaningful, long-term career, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust wants to hear from you. We’re looking for enthusiastic, caring and motivated individuals to join us as Healthcare Assistants — and to grow with us through our exceptional apprenticeship pathways.
This is more than a job. It’s your opportunity to gain highly valued NHS experience, develop clinical skills, and build a career you can be proud of. Our Healthcare Assistants can go on to become Nursing Associates and Registered Nurses through our apprenticeship programmes — your journey could start right here.
You must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.
Why begin your career with us
- A supportive environment where your learning and development truly matter
- Opportunities to apply for apprenticeship routes after probation, including:
- The Nursing Associate Apprenticeship
- The Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship
- Structured progression for those who want to build a long-term future in healthcare
- Hands-on experience in a busy acute hospital — the perfect foundation for a clinical career
- A team that values compassion, communication and a willingness to learn
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What we’re looking for
You don’t need previous healthcare experience — just the right values. If you’re caring, reliable, eager to learn and committed to making a difference, you’ll fit right in. Good communication skills and a compassionate approach are essential.
Please note: this role requires full-time working (37.5 hours per week) on a rota covering days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.
We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities. The Trust strives to provide high quality, compassionate care for our patients and their families.
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Our Values
- Compassionate
- Aspirational
- Resourceful
- Excellent
The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Recruitment Team
- Job title: Recruitment Team
- Email address: Recruitmentsupport@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0118 322 5342
Alternatively you can email Kerry Breadmore, Recruitment Coordinator on kerry.breadmore@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
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