Health Care Support Worker

Provide Community; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 34,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Provide CIC is seeking a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker to join our community ward in Brentwood, specialising in stroke rehabilitation. The role requires delivering high quality patient care with compassion, flexibility across days, nights and weekends, and collaborating with the MDT to support safe discharge planning.

You should have NVQ Level 3 or equivalent and prior health care experience, with excellent communication and teamwork.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent is required or higher.
• Previous health care experience is essential.
• Demonstrate motivation and ability to provide high quality patient care.
• Team working experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Integrate flexibly across the ward and communicate with the MDT.
• Deliver safe, high quality care for increasingly complex patients.
• Support discharge planning and coordination with community services.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Team working

Health care experience

Motivated

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Job description

Main area Nursing/Rehab Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days/Nights/Weekends) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4299
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Brentwood Community Hospital Town Brentwood Salary £25,760 - £27,476 pa, plus London fringe allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Job Overview

Provide are seeking Band 3 Health Care Support Worker to work on our community ward in Brentwood where we specialise in stroke rehabilitation. We are looking for candidates who can provide dynamic, professional, compassionate and high quality patient care to patients on Bayman Ward .

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be required to integrate flexibly across the ward with a particular focus on communication with the MDT to support a team approach to care. A key requirement of the role will be to deliver safe high quality care that meets the needs of increasingly complex patients in the community wards.
This will involve joint working between all of our inpatient units and supporting community services to manage patient pathways safely and effectively and ensure that robust discharge plans are in place that support patients to live their lives as independently as possible on discharge. There are close working relationships with medical practitioners and MDT which encourage a seamless and proactive approach to planning successful discharge.
The successful candidate will also need to have an academic qualification of NVQ Level 3 or higher and with previous Health Care experience and need to demonstrate that they are highly motivated and able to provide high quality patient care. Experience of team working is also essential.
You will be required to have excellent communication skills. Previous experience of nursing in an elderly care / rehabilitation environment desirable.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Experience

• Support registered practitioners in the delivery of individual agreed health care plans
• Experience in a health care setting
• Experience of working without supervision

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.