Healthcare Support Worker - Cedar Ward

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

Free tea & coffee

My Rewards Hub discounts

Wages-on-demand

Wellbeing support

Learning & development

Open culture & innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Health Care Support Worker to join the Cedar Ward team at Chippenham hospital. You’ll be part of our valued inpatient team, providing high standard of care for patients and supporting family members, friends and carers.

There are opportunities to develop skills such as monitoring patient observations, ECGs and phlebotomy, with flexible working patterns discussed. The role offers inclusive benefits and career development through The Learning Enterprise.

Qualifications

• Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management

Responsibilities

• To work within a multi-professional team in an Inpatient setting, providing, support, care, and treatment to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role.
• You will be expected to provide a high level of Essential Care to meet the needs of patients in the Ward.
• This will include helping to maintain personal hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition and hydration.
• As well as supporting recovery you will promote rehabilitation, encouraging patients to regain and maintain as much independence as possible.
• A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

Skills

Care Certificate

Experience working under supervision

Teamwork

Delivering patient-focused care

Time management

Self-motivated

Job description

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Chippenham Community Hospital, Wiltshire

Closing Date:

20/09/2026

Job Category:

HCRG - Additional Clinical Services

Service type:

HCRG - Community Services P1

Business Unit:

HCRG - BSW - MIU, Wards & Inpatients

Job Introduction

Package Description

As a Health Care Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued Inpatient team in Chippenham - Cedar Ward.

You will feel valued as a Health Care Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £25,500 (pro rata to hours worked)with access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.

Job Introduction

A great opportunity has arisen to join us as a Healthcare Support Worker working on Cedar Ward at Chippenham hospital .

Working as a Health Care Support Worker you will be an essential member of the multi-disciplinary team providing high standard of care for patients as well as support and comfort to family members, friends and carers .

In addition to Essential Care and Support there will be the opportunity to develop additional skills, including the monitoring and recording of Patient Observations, ECGs and Phlebotomy .

We are open to conversations around flexible working patterns.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.

Applicants who have previously applied will not be reconsidered for this role.

Main Responsibilities

To work within a multi-professional team in an Inpatient setting, providing, support, care, and treatment to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role .

You will be expected to provide a high level of Essential Care to meet the needs of patients in the Ward. This will include helping to maintain personal hygiene, continence, mobility, nutrition and hydration.

As well as supporting recovery you will promote rehabilitation, encouraging patients to regain and maintain as much independence as possible .

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for someone who is motivated and compassionate with the following:

• Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes . We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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