Healthcare Support Worker - Enhanced Recovery Service

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Fareham; Presencial; GBP 26.000 - 27.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking caring Healthcare Support Workers to join the Enhanced Recovery Service. You will support people in their own homes after illness or hospital admission, helping them regain independence and daily living skills.

Working with a multidisciplinary team, you will provide person-centred reablement, communicate with patients and families, and follow care plans under supervision.

Formación

• Good communication skills and compassionate approach.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in delivering person-centred care and reablement.

Responsabilidades

• Support delivery of responsive community-based care to keep people safely in their homes.
• Contribute to intermediate care service aiding timely hospital discharge and rehab.
• Provide reablement support in line with individual care plans and goals.
• Communicate with patients, families and colleagues in a compassionate, professional manner.

Conocimientos

Communication skills

Compassionate approach

Teamwork

Independent working

Educación

Care Certificate

Completed care certificate

Descripción del empleo

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 November 2026

Healthcare Support Worker - Enhanced Recovery Service

We are looking for caring, motivated and enthusiastic Healthcare Support Workers to join our Enhanced Recovery Service.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support people in their own homes following illness, injury or hospital admission to regain confidence, maximise independence and achieve their personal goals. You will provide practical reablement support, encouraging individuals to develop daily living skills and maintain their independence wherever possible.

You will work closely with patients, families, carers and health and social care colleagues to deliver person-centred care that focuses on what matters most to the individual. The role requires good communication skills, a compassionate approach and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference to people's lives by helping them remain independent in their own homes and reducing the need for ongoing support.

In return, we offer a supportive working environment, regular supervision and opportunities for training and development.

At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

• The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of responsive, high quality and community based care that enables people to remain safely in their own homes and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.
• The post holder will contribute to an intermediate care service that supports timely discharge from hospital and promotes rehabilitation, reablement and recovery.
• The post holder will provide person centred reablement support in line with individual care plans, helping people to regain independence and achieve their personal goals.
• Care will be delivered in accordance with HIOWH polices, procedures and guidelines, ensuing safe, compassionate and effective practice at all times.
• Will communicate on a regular basis with the patients, their relatives and colleagues in a caring, compassionate and professional manner using a trauma informed approach.
• Provide support to the nurse in charge and/or the person responsible for the Clinical care of the patient
• Exchange factual information with patients using tact, reassurance, empathy, compassion and acknowledging barriers to understanding.
• Use a range of skills to address barriers to understanding eg. a patient has a physical impairment, mental health condition or learning disabilities
• Promote and develop good relationships with patients, staff and visitors
• Promote good relations between the departments and services

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

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

• Level 2 qualification or equivalent in a relevant area gained through experience, on the job training, short courses and completion of work-based competencies
• Completed care certificate, in the process or willingness to work towards the care certificate
• Completed Care Certificate

Experience

• Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment.
• Completion and maintenance of statutory & mandatory learning activities.
• Awareness, understanding and compliance of policies and practices e.g. Escort Policy, Prevention and control of infection and Health and Safety. This post holder is therefore able to work within the scope of their practice under direct and indirect supervision by a registered nurse (training will be provided)
• Can demonstrate knowledge of equipment used within the department to support the registered nurse and ensure that they are compatible and in good working order. Will escalat any concerns to registered nurse.
• Can demonstrate a range of core skills to competently undertake personal care for patients and related tasks and activities.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills/literacy/ numeracy skills
• Good observation skills and recognition of the deteriorating patient and importance of reporting/ recording

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

£25,760 to £27,476 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata