Band 3 Health Care Support Worker - Devizes


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Devizes, SN10 5DS
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	24 Jul 2026
Closing date:	9 Aug 2026

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Summary

To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions for service users within designated clinical areas, in collaboration with, and under theindirect supervision of, registered care staff. These may include:- Supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physical wellbeing, and personal care.- Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.- Escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods of leave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitating social inclusion.- Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences in one-to-one or group discussions.- To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic environment that meets the needs of service users, carers and colleagues, and tosupport registered care staff to perform standardised environmental assessments to monitor and improve the care setting.- To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group interventions aiming to positively impact service users cognitive and emotionalwellbeing.- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To assume lead or link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities (e.g. Essence of Care, Safewards and carer engagement) under the supervision of registered staff.- To integrate areas of personal interest with clinical practice to enhance thediversity of the teams provision of care.- To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the development of recovery-focused interventions that address service users and carersneeds and preferences.- To proactively review, record and assess the on-going impacts of such interventions.- To participate in the on-going care planning, CPA and risk assessment processes in collaboration with service users, their carers, and othermembers of the care team and to contribute to all aspects of clinical record keeping.- To maintain a basic working understanding of both the Mental Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005), and any other relevantlegislation, as required by mandatory and statutory training (MaST).- To adhere to AWPs Code of Conduct for unregistered practitioners; promoting and embedding it through the delivery of peer support andsupervision to junior, temporary and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers.- To observe and record interactions with service users and carers both verbally and in writing via clinical records and staff handovers.- To deliver a wide range of fundamental care interventions using evidence based clinical tools, to monitor and improve physical health andpersonal wellbeing and to model a high standard of dignity, respect and candour.- To engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote ongoing clinical practice.- To promote and enhance a positive learning culture, being proactive in the induction, orientation and support of junior, temporary and newlyappointed Health Care Support Workers, seeking to embed core care values into practice. We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with lived-experience of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities, we are a Disability Confident Employer offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

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