Health Care Support Worker

Bradford District Care Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health service provider in Bradford as a Health Care Support Worker. You'll work in a supportive environment, delivering care to patients with severe mental illness. This role requires compassion, resilience, and a commitment to holistic care. You'll assist in maintaining patients' health and dignity while working in a multi-disciplinary team. Flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits are offered to support your work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Dedicated to providing holistic care.
• Encouraging recovery of patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to maintain personal hygiene and health.
• Assist healthcare team with clinical care.
• Ensure patient safety and positive experience.

Skills

Compassionate

Resilient

Patient-focused

Job description

Step Forward Centre is looking for passionate and committed individuals to join our ward as Health Care Support Workers (HCSW).

Would you like to broaden your clinical experience, working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?

About Us –

We are a provider of high-quality mental health, community and learning disability services across Bradford.

We work with individuals, their carers and our partners to ensure that people get the right care, in the right place with the right support. We share the common goal of becoming the leading provider of integrated care for people of all ages with mental or physical health needs.

Step Forward Centre is mixed ward with 12 beds and committed to delivering rehabilitation services to reduce health inequalities and improve the health and social care outcomes for individuals in our communities with Severe Mental Illness (SMI).

About You -

You will need to be resilient, compassionate and dedicated to providing holistic care. Patient focused and driven to helping encourage recovery of our patients.

Closing Date: 20th May 2025

Shortlisting Date: 22nd May 2025

Interview Date: 5th & 6th June 2025 (Subject to change)

This position is not eligible for sponsorship set by the Home Office and the skilled worker visa occupation list.

If you are currently a visa holder and your visa status expires, we may be required to terminate your employment in compliance with immigration regulations.

To provide generic care and planned interventions to the patients/clients within Step Forward centre .

Provide care to patients to maintain their personal hygiene, physical health and psychological comfort ensuring that their privacy and dignity is always maintained.

Under the supervision of registered health care professionals assist the healthcare team with the provision of clinical care for a defined group of patients

Ensure patient safety is maintained and patient experience is positive by treating all patients, relatives and colleagues with respect, dignity, and courtesy in accordance with Trust values.

Takes leadership from Assistant Practitioner within a delegation framework for agreed tasks.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 – 7

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sam Smith Job title: Ward Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01274 494194

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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