Community Health Care Assistant - District Nursing Service | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Community Health Care Assistant to join the District Nursing Service in Enfield. The successful candidate will be an experienced carer, ideally holding an NVQ Level 3 qualification and experience of working within patients’ own homes. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of health professionals and informal carers.

You will work as part of a District Nursing Team, delivering high-quality nursing care to patients within their own homes. ECS promotes an integrated approach to care, developed in response to the changing needs of the local population, with a strong focus on proactive community-based care. The role also requires the ability to work independently and provide a consistently high standard of care to a multicultural and diverse population.

You will demonstrate leadership qualities, strong teamwork skills, and provide administrative and organisational support within the team.

A comprehensive induction and training programme will be provided to support you in settling into the role and developing within the team.

Previous experience of working with elderly patients in the community would be an advantage. You will be providing support and undertake agreed nursing duties under the supervision of the Registered Nurses, in addition have the ability to work independently. There will be support for you to develop and acquire valuable skills which will enable you to provide excellent care to patients whilst visiting them at home and clinic.

We offer Induction programme for new staff and encourage staff to participate in our varied development programme. You will find satisfaction in helping patients to manage their own health needs in the community and will be able to work alongside other health and social care professionals to ensure that patients in Enfield receive the best possible care.

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey.

Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.

We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital, we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.

The Community division comprises of the 0-19 Service, Health Visitor, School Nursing services, that deliver the Healthy Child Programme as well as a BCG clinic for targeted babies and the Canterbury ward, that supports the acute wards. Also, they have the District Nursing Service division that delivers adult care in Enfield Community.

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

This advert closes on Friday 12 Jun 2026