Healthcare Support Worker - Band 2 to 3 (Isle of Wight based)

Company Description

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please upload a copy of Maths and English (GCSE or equivalent International) qualifications to your application, without this information you will not be invited to interview.

Job Description

Healthcare Support Worker – Band 2 to 3 development role.
Salary: £25,272 pro rata per annum.
Work Location: St Mary's Hosp (IOW), Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, Newport, United Kingdom, PO30 5TG.
Hours per week: Full time, 37.5 hours per week (will consider part time, minimum 23 hours).
Contract Type: Permanent.

Are you the kind of person who always puts patients first? Are you a team player? Are you always looking to improve our patients' well-being?

If this is you, you could become a Healthcare Support Worker at St Mary's Hospital (Isle of Wight) - you could be new to Health and Social Care, or an experienced support worker, we would love to hear from you!

Healthcare Support Workers (HCSW) are essential providers of everyday care for our patients. The HCSW role is rewarding, it's the kind of job where you will need to be organised, adaptable, resilient, and hardworking. You will have great prioritisation skills, good observational skills and have empathy for others.

Working with us, you will witness first-hand the positive impact your caring nature and efforts will make on our hospital. You will need to be willing to be hands-on with our patients.

You will start your career with us by taking part in our full time two week induction programme, designed to support you in finding your feet within our organisation, and enable you to feel part of the team. The induction program leads to the Care Certificate.

The HCSW role includes a variety of working patterns which attract shift allowances.

The shifts can include:

Early 07:30-15:30

Late 12:00-20:00

Long 07:30-20:00

Night 19:30-08:00

Please upload a copy of Maths and English qualifications along with your applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of registered healthcare professionals, you will be assisting the team with the provision of clinical care for a defined group of patients. In addition, you will take all possible steps to safeguard the welfare, safety and security of patients, visitors, and staff.

Typical day-to day duties include:

• Providing care for patients, helping to maintain their personal hygiene, which will sometimes include handling of bodily fluids and excrete.
• Providing physical comfort for patients, whilst ensuring their privacy and dignity is always maintained
• Washing and dressing patients, and helping them to safely move around
• Serving meals and help with feeding
• Assisting with cleaning tasks and making beds
• Monitoring patient conditions and report to senior team
• Recording information to patient administration systems and assist with other administrative duties

Most importantly, you will ensure patient experience is positive by treating all patients, relatives, and colleagues in accordance with Trust values.

For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the Job Description

Please note this role does not offer sponsorship.

Qualifications

• English and Maths at Level 1 Functional Skills or GCSE equivalent  (Please upload a copy of Maths and English qualifications along with your applications).
• Desire to deliver compassionate hands-on care in a hospital environment.
• Completed Care Certificate or ability to complete within 3 months of appointment (Pro rata for part time employee).
• Complete Knowledge and Behaviour Framework within 6 months of appointment.

Desirable: 

• Level 2 qualification in a Health-related subject or equivalent in a relevant area gained through experience, on the job training, short courses and completion of work-based competencies.

Experience

Desirable: 

• Experience in acute hospital setting, community setting or nursing home.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026