Bank HCA (healthcare assistant)

You should have recived some mendatory training in manula handling etc Try your best to stick to your guns and use equipment properly even if more experienced HCAs will try to talk you into yanking people up the beds and other dodgy practices. You have only got one back and if you do injure a patient you will be in big trouble.

hey guys, thought id give you an update

its going ok, im still not great and don't always know what im doing, but im getting there. its a little awkward answering the questions of relatives though, but it doesn't hurt being honest and saying that im not too sure

im thinking of doing nightshifts this week, what are your experiences of these? and how much more d'yu get paid ?

Hope you are all well and enjoying your holidays (if you aren't working )

Just a quick question for other HCAs.

I work as a full time HCA on an outpatients department and for some reason EVERY member of staff seems to ask me about what I want to do in the future/my background etc. I have a place for medicine next year so I'm trying to work out whether I should tell people.

My biggest fear is that it will filter through to the ward sister who has made life difficult in the past for people who are leaving soon. One HCA, who was leaving a month after I arrived to become a physio, said he asked the sister to be on orthopaedic clinics more to give him more experience but he was taken off all the orthopaedic clinics he was in.

So far I've told a few doctors (because I was interested in what they were doing) and a couple of staff I trust as friends. However, I told one who said "everybody knows." I'm not sure how. Nobody seems surprised when I say.

Is it worth hiding it? The sister did say to me once that she knew I wouldn't be staying for long based on my qualifications but thought it was worth taking me on anyway. Maybe I'm making a bigger deal out of it than I should.

Is it worth hiding it? The sister did say to me once that she knew I wouldn't be staying for long based on my qualifications but thought it was worth taking me on anyway. Maybe I'm making a bigger deal out of it than I should.

I think you are making it a little complicated than it is

Tell the staff that you are friendly with, but ask them to keep it to themselves (and if you tell the select few that you trust, they should)

Or

Tell everybody, and if you are treated differently, I would speak to her manager if you think she is targetting you for leaving soon / going to study medicine

Good luck

Working in a HCA role is in many cases transitory with the view to progressing to further training. Additionally, as much as I dislike bringing up the gender issue, the fact that a nursing role is an uncommon choice for a young male will undoubtedly lead to others taking more interest in your future career ambitions. I am asked similar questions by a very large proportion of people whom I meet.

I don't see any particular issue with being open about your future medical training, although don't be offended if you receive a slightly uncomplimentary response from some for whatever reason. By any means, there are many staff nurses to whom being a modern matron or clinical site manager at some point in the future is a strong ambition, and those of your own are hardly any different.

Thanks for the advice. Have either of you been in this situation? What did you do?

Do you have to be a medical student/ nursing student to be a HCA??, i am currently studying biomedical science but have volunteered at a hospice for 2 years and have got experience in a hospital and have applied to a few places but none of them want to even know. is there anything i can do?

I'm currently applying for nursing and I've been trying to enquire about being a bank hca for months with no helpful information from anyone. This thread has helped slightly, just wondering if there's a way to apply for bank work at my local hospital without there being a job vacancy on the nhs jobs website, I'm pretty sure they use bank workers quite often so I was wondering if there was a place where I could apply??

You can just work over the summer, lots of people do, you can choose your hours and days of work. I'm an HCA and worked on various wards, it is very interesting, you will enjoy it. You only have to work 2-3 weeks in that year to remain on the hca rosta

You can just work over the summer, lots of people do, you can choose your hours and days of work. I'm an HCA and worked on various wards, it is very interesting, you will enjoy it. You only have to work 2-3 weeks in that year to remain on the hca rosta

From what I've even told no you don't, I've been told that they will train you. When I was volunteering I was told to do the same, I'm just finding it hard to actually get on the bank as a hca I'm 19 and leaving college this year, hopefully going into nursing in September! I've rang my local hospital and they passed me on to someone else and then the people who they passed me onto passed me back and it was a nightmare in the end I just gave up!


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