Trainee Healthcare Support Worker

Job summary

During your placement, youll work towards achieving the widely recognised Care Certificate with the training you need to become a Healthcare Support Worker(HCSW). Also known as Healthcare Assistant (HCA). Throughout, youll have supportive supervision from your mentor/Ward Manager.

Once youve graduated as a HCSW, you can progress your career by accessing further training. This career path may lead to potential roles such as Senior Healthcare Assistant to Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate, enabling further career avenues such as a Nurse or Midwife.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust provides a range of services across community hospitals, recovery units and within the wider community. As one of only six Global Digital Exemplars in Mental Health, the Trust is the countys main provider of community nursing, therapy and mental health services.

You will join a 6-month paid supervised placement programme.

Work towards your Care Certificate whilst receiving weekly pay, paid annual leave and all the other great benefits NHS Professionals offers our bank members. Once you have successfully completed the programme you will be able to work flexibly at any of our partner Trusts.

Pay Rates:

• Days: £12.21
• Saturdays/Nights: £17.22
• Sunday/Bank Hols: £22.34

Main duties of the job

During your placement, you'll learn to care for people within Mental Health.

All whilst working towards achieving the widely recognised Care Certificate with the training you need to become a Healthcare Support Worker(HCSW). Throughout, you'll have supportive supervision from your mentor/Ward Manager.

As a trainee HCSW in Mental Health, you'll learn key skills, such as:

• Taking basic observations, explaining treatment, and updating patient records.
• Supporting patients with everyday activities, including assisting at mealtimes.
• Providing emotional support and reassurance to patients and their families.
• Monitoring patients physical and mental health and keeping accurate records.
• Supervising patients to ensure their safety, managing common emergencies, and performing risk assessments.
• Working individually and as part of a team, supporting registered Nurses and other healthcare practitioners in providing patient care.
• Comply with Trust and local policies and procedures including Safeguarding, Infection Prevention and Control.

Please note that we require:

• You must be over the age of 18 before the planned classroom training week.
• You work at least 30 hours a week across earlies, late's and nights during the programme.
• You have a passion for care and can demonstrate the six enduring values that underpin compassion in practice.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Benefits of joining HCSWD

• Career Progression
• Work this week, get paid next week
• Paid annual leave and build holiday allowance
• Provide care, safety, and welfare for patients
• Join the NHS family and become a part of the healthcare team
• Dedicated training and supervised shifts with support from your ward / area and skilled mentors.

About the Trust

Rated Good in their most recent CQC report, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust provides a range of services across community hospitals, recovery units and within the wider community. As one of only six Global Digital Exemplars in Mental Health, the Trust is the countys main provider of community nursing, therapy and mental health services.