Healthcare Support Worker

Job description

Job OverviewA great opportunity has arisen to join us as a Fixed Term Healthcare Support Worker on Cedar Ward at Chippenham Hospital. As a Health Care Support Worker you will be an essential member of the multi‐disciplinary team, providing high standard care for patients as well as support and comfort to family members, friends and carers. In addition to essential care and support you will have the chance to develop additional skills, including monitoring and recording patient observations, ECGs and phlebotomy. Your role will involve working within a multi‐professional team in an inpatient setting, providing support, care, and treatment to individuals within the guidelines and protocols identified for the role.

Key responsibilities include maintaining personal hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition and hydration. You will support recovery, promote rehabilitation and encourage patients to regain and maintain as much independence as possible. You will also help to deliver patient‐focused care, recognise your own limitations, and work as a team member.

Qualifications

Good general education.

Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.

Experience of working under supervision.

Experience of supporting other workers.

Ability to work as a team member.

Delivering patient‐focused care.

Ability to recognise own limitations.

Typing/data inputting skills.

Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.

Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.

Driven to achieve.

Self‐motivated.

Good time management.

Benefits

£25,500 pro rata with access to our group pension.

Free tea and coffee at your base location.

Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases, cashback and voucher offers.

Access to wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.

Online and face‐to‐face help with mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post‐trauma support, legal, debt and life‐management help, and career coaching and counselling.

Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.

An open, just culture encouraging you to have and implement ideas that help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‐fenced innovation funding each year.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident company and provide necessary facilities, workplace adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive as possible. Safeguarding and protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults is of utmost importance; we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices. All team members undergo a safer recruitment process, including criminal record disclosure and vetting checks.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes.

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Chippenham

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

26-05-2026

Profession type

Counselling and Social Services

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English