Healthcare Support Worker - Eating Disorders

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Southampton is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Support Worker for its Eating Disorder Service. The role involves supporting service users through one-on-one and group activities, meal supervision, and various administrative tasks. Candidates should possess strong literacy, numeracy skills, and a valid driving licence. The position offers a salary of £24,937 to £26,598, with flexible working options available.

Responsibilities

• Support service users through one-to-one and group work focusing on meal support.
• Conduct administrative tasks, food shopping, and meal preparation.
• Co-facilitate therapeutic groups and provide one-to-one support.

Skills

Literacy and numeracy skills

Driving licence with business insurance

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Support Worker - Eating Disorders

The closing date is 19 October 2025

We are looking for a confident and supportive Healthcare Support Worker with a passion for delivering outstanding care within the Eating Disorder Service, Day Support Programme (DSP).

The DSP works with up to six service users with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa to help with weight recovery and supports an active approach in eating disorder recovery.

DSP is primarily based within April House in Southampton and currently runs from 08:30-16:30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and until 19:30 on Wednesdays.

April House is made up of a community outpatient department that offers specialist assessment and psychological treatment for adult service users with a range of eating disorders. The Day Support Programme, which is an intensive community treatment programme and a physical health monitoring team, monitors service users who present with high physical health risks.

The role includes supporting service users within DSP through both one-to-one and group work with the focus on both meal support and psychoeducation. You will work alongside a supportive team including a Dietitian, Mental Health Nurse, Mental Health Practitioner, Occupational Therapist and other Healthcare Support Workers.

Interviews are due to take place on Wednesday 5 November 2025 for this role.

Main duties of the job

Some of your duties will include administrative tasks, food shopping, planning and preparing mealtimes, supervising and supporting patients during meals and/or snacks, co-facilitating therapeutic groups, providing one-to-one support as needed both within April House and in the community.

You will be caring and compassionate, honest, conscientious, and committed. You will contribute to maintaining safe clinical practice by ensuring that clinical records are accurate, correctly collated, and up to date.

You will be involved in audit and research as part of service delivery and participate in service improvement projects.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *Literacy and numeracy skills
• *Driving licence with business insurance and access to vehicle during working hours

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.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata