Health Care Support Worker / Therapy Support Worker

We are excited to be recruiting a number of Health Care Support Workers / Therapy Support Workers to join our team at The Orbital in Swindon. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time roles, offering flexibility to suit your lifestyle.

HCRG is advancing a major transformation to embed the Integrated Neighbourhood Health vision set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. By fostering stronger collaboration across services and adopting innovative ways of working, we aim to create healthier, more resilient communities and ensure that health and care resources are used where they have the greatest impact.

Interviews will be held via an assessment day on 27th February, from 10:00am. Successful applicants will be invited to attend and take part in a range of activities designed to help us get to know you and your skills.

If you are caring, motivated, and keen to develop your skills in a supportive healthcare environment, we would love to hear from you.

• Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
• To keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• Responsibility for, and supporting, the day-to-day care of patients, including monitoring.
• To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
• To work within a multi-professional team and to feed back service user progress, liaising with colleagues, families, carers and other agencies.
• To assist registered and unregistered staff, referring to registered staff when necessary.

• Good general education.
• Care Certificate – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under supervision.
• Experience of supporting other workers.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Experience in providing care / delivering rehab or exercise.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management skills.
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

• Experience of community working.
• Experience of the NHS.
• Experience of work in an acute or urgent health care setting.
• Experience of working in rehabilitation.
• Basic wound care knowledge and skills.

As a Health Care Support Worker / Therapy Support Worker you’ll be part of our valued team based at The Orbital, Swindon. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A Band 3 salary with access to our group pension.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

In this varied and rewarding position, you will have the opportunity to support both nursing areas and therapy services, working closely with our multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. Comprehensive and appropriate training will be provided to ensure you feel confident and supported in your role.