Senior Healthcare Support Worker | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a motivated individual to work in clinics, providing direct patient care and advocacy. Responsibilities include applying splinting and casting treatments, completing requests for treatment, and ensuring a high-quality consultation experience. Ideal candidates will exhibit strong skills in patient interaction and clinical procedures. Note that this role does not meet UK visa requirements and may close early if applications exceed expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience in applying splinting and casting treatments.
• Ability to perform basic dressings and venepuncture.
• Competence in removing casts safely and timely.

Responsibilities

• Chaperoning patients and acting as their advocate.
• Facilitating the smooth running of the clinic.
• Ensuring high-quality consultations for patients.

Job description

Overview

Working in the Clinics with the medical staff chaperoning the patients, acting as patient advocate, completing requests for treatment and facilitating the smooth running of the clinic to ensure the patient has a high quality consultation.

Responsibilities

• Applying splinting and casting treatments for the patients to a high standard with the correct knowledge to give the patient good advice.
• Applying basic dressings and performing venepuncture within the clinic setting.
• Removing casts in a safe timely manner.
• Applying and removing casts and splints.
• Dressings.
• Suture and clip removal.
• Venapuncture.

Organisation and context

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Dec 2025