Healthcare Support Worker (ICT - Community)

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Castleford; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite nurseries

Childcare vouchers

Home electronics schemes

Working carers support

Carer-friendly policies

Job summary

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is recruiting a healthcare support worker to join the Integrated Care Team in Wakefield and surrounding towns. You will provide patient-centered care to residents in their own homes, working with nurses and other professionals within a 24/7 service and travelling between visits.

You will support personal care tasks such as bathing, toileting, dressing, repositioning, and maintaining dignity, with a focus on palliative and rehabilitation patients.

Qualifications

• Deliver holistic, safe, and effective care in line with Trust values and behaviours.
• Provide personal care to Palliative Care and Rehabilitation patients in their own homes.
• Support nurses and other healthcare professionals in providing care.
• Flexible to work days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.
• Significant travel between patients' homes and places of work.

Responsibilities

• Bathing
• Toileting
• Dressing
• Repositioning patients
• Assisting with personal hygiene and appearance

Skills

Personal care

Patient support

Flexibility

Travel to patient homes

Team support

Job description

The healthcare support worker role within the Integrated Care Team is an integral part of the service, providing patient-centred care to the residents of Wakefield and the 5 towns area (Castleford, Featherstone, Knottingley, Normanton, Pontefract) within their preferred place of care. You will support nurses and other healthcare professional in providing care to our patients. The Team operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so its important you have the flexibility to work a variety of shifts, including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays. The role also involves significant travel between patients homes and places of work. We are looking for someone who will enjoy working directly with patients in the community and is comfortable providing personal care. Please note that this role is not on the Home Office list of occupations eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Main duties of the job: Deliver holistic, safe, and effective care in line with Trust values and behaviours. Provide personal care to Palliative Care and Rehabilitation (Rehab) patients in their own homes, including:

• Bathing
• Toileting
• Dressing
• Repositioning patients
• Assisting with personal hygiene and appearance

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support.

• Onsite nurseries
• Childcare vouchers
• Home electronics schemes
• Working carers support
• Carer-friendly policies
• And more

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.