Senior Healthcare Support Worker

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Healthcare Support Worker to join their Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit. The role involves providing high-quality care, supporting assessments, and collaborating with nursing teams to ensure a robust recovery pathway for patients. Candidates should have relevant experience in mental health settings and possess qualifications in care. This position offers competitive benefits and a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Early access to Psychological Therapies

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major retailers

Qualifications

• Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems.
• Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care within the clinical decisions unit.
• Support assessments, planning, and implementation of patient care.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure a robust recovery pathway.

Skills

Patient and empathic approach

Effective communication

Clear accurate clinical note keeping

De-escalation skills

Planning and organisation skills

Venepuncture

Education

Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards

NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent

Certificate in Community Mental Health

ECDL

Job description

Senior Healthcare Support Worker

The closing date is 26 January 2026

Join Our Team as a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker.

Are you a highly motivated individual with a passion for mental health care? We are looking for someone to join our Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit (PCDU) and Health-Based Place of Safety (HBPoS) at LPFT.

Your Role

• Provide High-Quality Care: Participate in developing, implementing, and maintaining care within the clinical decisions unit.
• Support Assessments: Be actively involved in the assessment, planning, and implementation of patient care.
• Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with service users, their carers, and the nursing team to ensure a robust recovery pathway, often community based.

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

Shift Work: Ability to work a flexible schedule, including days, nights, and weekends.

• Passion for Mental Health: A genuine interest in supporting individuals through their mental health journey.

Apply Today

Embark on a rewarding career with LPFT, where your contributions make a significant impact on the lives of service users. Join us in shaping the future of mental health care.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Visitlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job responsibilities

Innovative Service: Join a service that leads to well-developed, service-user-centred treatment plans, helping manage immediate crises and supporting long-term recovery.

Supportive Environment: Thrive in an atmosphere conducive to delivering exceptional mental health care, with opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Benefits

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a nursing assistant grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting
• Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent

Qualifications

• Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT
• NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent
• Certificate in Community Mental Health
• ECDL

Skills

• A patient and empathic approach
• Effective communication with service user, other members of the team and outside agencies
• Clear accurate clinical note keeping
• Skills related to Physical healthcare interventions such as urine analysis, phlebotomy, TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results
• De-escalation Skills
• Planning and organisation skills
• Requirement to work both day shifts and night shifts
• Venepuncture

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

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Psychiatric Decisions Unit, Peter Hodgkinson Centre