Night Community Health & Social Care Assistant

DCHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health services provider in Derby is looking for Night Community Health & Social Care Assistants to support patients discharged from hospitals. The role involves working nights, providing care, and ensuring patient independence. The organization offers benefits such as flexible working hours, generous annual leave, and ongoing training opportunities. Interested candidates must have a UK driving licence and a vehicle. Apply before November 19, 2025.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension scheme

Flexible working

Ongoing training opportunities

Qualifications

• UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Ability to work flexibly including weekends and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to patients to optimise their health and independence.
• Work with clinicians to deliver care and treatment.
• Document work to a high standard and reflect DCHS values.

Job description

A Vacancy at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust.

Our Community First Team has opportunities for Night Community Health & Social Care Assistants to join our team in Derby City.

What does the Community First Team do?

We step in to support people who are discharged from acute hospitals and those who need an urgent community response. The person needs short‑term/interim support in their homes. The teams are committed to caring and supporting people at home and work over a seven‑day rota.

If you would like to talk about what a day in the life of this role is like, please feel free to contact Jonathan Hargadon 07887832010.

What are the hours?

21:45pm - 07:30am. This includes weekends and bank holidays.

Where would I be working?

Base: Perth House Assessment Hub and people’s own homes. Area Covered: Derby City and surrounding area. Working in this team means you will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of going to people’s homes. This will require you to have a UK driving licence and access to a vehicle. DCHS has a mileage policy and car lease scheme available to support our staff.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate is expected to work and document to a high standard and work in a way that reflects the DCHS values.

To maintain standards, ensuring quality of patient care through the development of a range of knowledge and competencies to support clinicians.

To assist all clinicians in delivering agreed programmes of treatment and care where appropriate and work as an effective member of the wider multi‑disciplinary team.

To carry out individual care without direct supervision in the community and to work in the Perth House Assessment Hub at night to support customers with their rehabilitation goals.

To provide support to patients to optimise their health and independence.

The Purpose and Activities of DCHS

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire. We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.

Benefits

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visas & Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Nov 2025.