Health Care Support Worker

Provide Community; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 34,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Provide CIC is seeking a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker to join the Bayman Ward at Brentwood Community Hospital, delivering compassionate, high‑quality patient care to stroke rehabilitation patients on a community ward.

The role requires NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, health care experience, and excellent communication with the MDT to support discharge planning and multi‑site collaboration between inpatient units and community services.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent health care qualification.
• Experience in health care setting.
• Experience of working without supervision.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience of team working is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support MDT in delivering high quality patient care on Bayman Ward.
• Assist in discharge planning and community pathways.
• Communicate effectively with medical practitioners and care teams.
• Provide care for stroke rehabilitation patients in a community setting.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Team working

Education

NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

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-A

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 06/11/2026 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 .

Bayman ward is a 25 bedded ward providing a service supporting stroke rehabilitation. The ward is nurse led, supported by Medical Practitioners and provides a progressive service which promotes multidisciplinary working. The philosophy is one that encourages staff participation at all levels and identifies opportunities for service and career development

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. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

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

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via [e-mail]
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

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.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or [e-mail].

Work Trials

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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.