Healthcare assistant cover letter example
A healthcare assistant cover letter, or the supporting statement on an NHS form, should show the ward or setting you know, the clinical tasks you are trusted with and one example of escalating a change. Most NHS posts use an online form: copy the evidence below into its supporting statement.
Fictional letter from Leah Okafor, the applicant in the healthcare assistant cv example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Senior Healthcare Assistant post on Ward 7. I have five years' experience in hospital and nursing home care, the last three on a 28-bed acute medical ward, and I hold the Care Certificate and a Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support.
The post, the setting you come from and your qualifications.
The person specification asks for confident observations and escalation. On Elmstead Ward I take and record full observations and blood glucose for up to eight patients a shift, and I report a rising early warning score to the nurse in charge straight away. I am signed off for venepuncture and ECGs.
Evidence written against the person specification, the way NHS shortlisting reads it.
I would value working on a surgical ward to widen my experience, and I already show new healthcare assistants our ward routine in their first two weeks, which I would like to build on in a senior role.
Why this ward, and the extra responsibility that fits a senior post.
I can work long days, nights and weekends, and my enhanced DBS certificate is on the Update Service. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Shifts and checks, the CV and a polite close.