Apprentice Enhanced Care Support Worker

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS healthcare provider is seeking Apprentice Enhanced Care Support Workers to provide compassionate care to patients with complex needs. This role includes a Clinical Support Worker apprenticeship lasting up to 16 months, offering training and the opportunity to gain valuable skills while working alongside qualified staff. The position supports work-life balance and offers extensive benefits, including access to health services and an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health and wellbeing services

Onsite nurseries and childcare vouchers

Qualifications

• Good communication skills to build relationships with staff, patients, and families.
• Ability to maintain professionalism and dignity in challenging situations.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and respect for equality and diversity.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate care to patients and support clinical staff.
• Complete a Clinical Support Worker apprenticeship over 16 months.
• Maintain confidentiality and ensure patient dignity is respected.

Skills

Compassionate care

Distraction and diversion techniques

Understanding of risk

Education

GCSEs in English and Maths (grades 4-9) or Functional Skills Level 2

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to gain a qualification whilst supporting people with a range of complex and challenging conditions. Do you think you have the skills and knowledge and wish to learn more to support people who present with behaviours that challenge? Are you good at thinking on your feet and understanding risk? You will gain knowledge of distraction and diversion techniques and have the ability to create a positive and safe environment for patients who require additional support during their stay in hospital. The Enhanced Care Team will be recruiting 17 Apprentice Enhanced Care Support Workers and Enhanced Care Support Workers who will provide an enhanced level of care to patients with behaviours that challenge or for those at high risk of absconding.

Please also note that this role is not on the Home Office list of occupations eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Main duties of the job

The role is a key part of the nursing team, offering compassionate care to patients, carers, and relatives at the Trust. You will undertake a training programme to achieve a Clinical Support Worker apprenticeship over a maximum of 16 months. You will work under the direction of a qualified member of staff to ensure the safe and skilled delivery of a range of clinical tasks. You will be required to work a minimum of 30 hours a week and will be allocated 20% of your contracted hours (up to a maximum of 6 hours a week) protected time towards study, learning, shadowing and appropriate courses. You will need to maintain a professional appearance at all times and build positive, respectful relationships with staff, patients, and families. You will protect the privacy, dignity, and confidentiality of individuals, ensuring that equality and diversity are respected in everything you do. During your apprenticeship, you will learn the necessary theory and skills to undertake a range of core clinical skills.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities

To be eligible for this apprenticeship, you:

• will need GCSEs in English and Maths at grades 4-9 (A-C) or Functional Skills Level 2
• must not have previously started an apprenticeship in the same field
• must be aged 16+
• must have been a resident in the UK/EU for the last three years
• will need to complete a mandatory bksb assessment in Maths and English as part of the apprenticeship enrolment process

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£24,937 to £26,598 a year Annex 21 Agenda for Change applies