Health Care Support Worker

Bradford District Care Trust; Long Lee; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bradford is seeking a Health Care Support Worker to deliver compassionate care to patients in their homes. This part-time role offers comprehensive training in essential skills such as wound care and diabetes management, with opportunities for professional development. The successful candidate will work closely with a community nursing team, ensuring high-quality care is provided to the local population.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with patients in a community setting.
• Ability to work independently and travel to patient homes.
• Commitment to high-quality care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care to patients in their home environment.
• Assist with wound care, diabetes management, and medication.
• Collaborate with the Primary Health Care team.

Skills

Compassionate care

Wound care

Diabetes management

Medication administration

Enteral feeding

Education

NVQ or equivalent qualifications

Job description

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Are you enthusiastic and committed to delivering high quality compassionate care to people in their own home , if so then a health care support worker role in community nursing is the ideal job for you.

We have vacancies in the North and Airedale localities of Bradford

As a Health care support worker you will work as part of the planned care community nursing service delivering care to people living in their own home environment .

We will support you to develop skills that will enable you to carry out a variety of interventions, appropriately delegated by a clinician in the team. You will be given full training in wound care , diabetes management including insulin administration, you will also support patients who require support with enteral feeding regimes and medication administration . These are a few examples of the types of skills you will be developing with a comprehensive training package underpinning these skills

The successful candidate will have experience of working with patients ideally in the community setting and appropriate NVQ or equivalent qualifications or experience.

As an agile worker you will need to be able to move around Airedale independently and in a timely manner as you will be visiting patients in their own home.

Closing Date: 30th May 2025

Shortlisting Date: 2nd June 2025

Interview Date: 11th June 2025

To work as part of the Adult Community Nursing Services over a 7 day period.

Ensuring high quality health care is delivered to patients in their homes as an integrated part of the mainstream Integrated District Nursing service. To work in collaboration with the wider Primary Health Care team, whilst participating in the assessment of health needs and delivering of care to the practice population. The service is delivered over a seven day rota. with a shift range from 8- 9pm 7 days a week

We have great development opportunities for our Health care support workers supporting apprenticeship programmes to undertake pre registration training to be come a registered nurse or Nursing associate.

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.

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 :

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: Nicola White Job title: Community Lead Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07557815607

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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