Wye Valley NHS Trust is recruiting Health Care Support Worker posts, full time and part time, open to people with or without previous care experience. The role supports nursing teams with patient care, including personal care, meals, mobility, bed making and monitoring patients' condition, and talking with patients and their families. Candidates can meet the recruitment team at drop-in sessions without booking, with interviews for successful attendees on 19 November 2026. Sponsorship is not offered, so applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
What the job involves
- Support nursing teams in providing patient care
- Wash and dress patients
- Serve meals and feed patients
- Help patients to move around
- Make beds
- Talk to patients and their families
- Monitor patient condition
- Carry out a wide range of tasks alongside the wider team
What’s required
Qualifications
- Good standard of secondary education
- Expected to meet Care Certificate standards within 12 weeks of starting
Experience
- Working with people
Skills & knowledge
- Undertake personal care and related procedures
- Good listening and communication skills
- Able to follow direct instructions
- Well organised
Checks & eligibility
- Right to work in the UK
Other
- Flexible and adaptable to a changing environment
- Able to work as part of a team and autonomously
- Able to work well under pressure
- Caring and kind
- Cheerful and friendly
Nice to have
- Previous experience working in a care environment
- Diploma level 2/3 in Health & Social Care
- Willingness to work towards apprenticeship level 2/3 in Health & Social Care
- Willingness to undertake Maths and English Functional Skills qualifications
- Maths and English GCSE grades 3-9 or A-D, or equivalent Functional Skills, or pass internal literacy and numeracy assessment
- Knowledge of roles and responsibilities within a clinical setting
- Ability to perform patient observations and recordings
What’s offered
- Full-time and part-time posts, with flexible working arrangements open to discussion
- Good work-life balance
- Information on apprenticeship schemes at the drop-in sessions
- Support from the Trust to help staff reach their full potential
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
