Trainee Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

Are you looking to take your first step in to the NHS or continue your journey by joining us on our apprenticeship/ trainee health care support worker development programme?

When you join us as a trainee health care support workeryou will spend the first six weeks on our bespoke care certificate induction programme which will help you develop all the initial skills that you need to do the role, giving you the confidence to join your ward based team and care for our patients.

You will be supported, nurtured, and developed along the way by our dedicated education facilitator team. Once you have completed your initial 6 weeks training, and believe us it will fly by, you will then join your inpatient ward -based teams and at which point you will then be enrolled on to the Level 2 apprenticeship in health. (subject to English and Math grades)

As antrainee health care support worker we offer you a supported training post to enable you to move from trainee (band 2) to a permanent (Band 3) on successful completion of the care certificate, Level 2 apprenticeship in health (to include your end point assessment) and if required, functional skills in English and Maths.

From health care support worker, you may then want to progress on to our Trainee Nurse associate (TNA) programme and from there on to our Registered nurse degree apprenticeship (RNDA). The NHS is your oyster! Take a look at the routes in to the NHSin the documents to download section.

Main duties of the job

Our inpatient wards don't close, so as you would expect, we do work on a shift basis - our patients need our care and attention 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year; so everyone gets involved working different shifts to ensure our patients receive the very best. Examples of shift times are early (07.30 - 15.00, late (12.30 -21.00) , twightlight (12.00 - 00.30), night (20.15 - 07.15) and you must be able to commit to all shift patterns.

We have opportunities on the below wards only.

• Rosewood ward, The Meadows, Offerton.
• Taylor Ward, Tameside Hospital.
• Hurst Place, Tameside General Hospital.
• Rhodes Place, Royal Oldham Hospital.
• Prospect Place, Birch Hill hospital Rochdale

Interviews will take place on the 21st Julyand cannot be changed. Candidates who wish to apply for this rolemust make sure they are available on this day.

The start date for successful applicants is Monday 23rd October 2023. No annual leave can be taken during the first 6 weeks of training.

Training is delivered at Horton House Oldham, Outram Road Dukinfield, Royal Oldham Hospital and on your ward.

About us

We are proud to be the most improved mental health and learning disability trust to work for and BEST in the North West. (NHS staff survey 2022)

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.