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Health Care Support Worker - Leominster

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Leominster, HR6 8JHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£25,272

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

8 October 2026

10 days left

Job description

Healthcare Support Worker - Leominster Community Hospital Band 2 Make a real difference every day Ready to start or grow your career in healthcare? Jo...

<3 Friendly, supportive ward teams where you are valued<3 A strong culture focused on patient experience and quality care<3 Opportunities to develop your skills and confidence<3 Clear progression pathways, including apprenticeships into nursing and clinical roles<3 Ongoing training and career development support<3 A focus on staff wellbeing and work-life balance

We are committed to helping you develop. Whether you are new to healthcare or looking to progress, we offer structured development opportunities, including apprenticeship pathways to support your journey into nursing or other healthcare professions.

Be part of something special

Join a close-knit team where compassion, respect, and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do -- and where you can truly make a difference to people's lives every day.

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Informal visits are warmly welcomed -- come and meet the team and see what makes our community hospitals special.

For more information or to arrange informal visit please contact

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

As aHealth Care Support Worker, youwill be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.

Examples of what you may do as part of your role:

  • Washing and dressing patients
  • Serving meals and feeding patients
  • Helping patients to move around
  • Making beds
  • Talking to patients and their families
  • Monitoring patient condition

  • Caring and kind
  • Cheerful and friendly
  • Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting
  • Able to follow direct instructions
  • Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
  • Have good listening and communication skills
  • Be well organised

This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.

Easily accessible from Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Monmouth, and South Wales -- offering the chance to work in a beautiful rural setting with strong community connections.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively in English, verbally and in writing
  • Willingness to undertake the Maths and English Functional Skills qualifications if not already obtained

Desirable: - Willingness to work towards Apprenticeship level 2/3 in Health & Social Care

Experience

Essential: - Working with people

Desirable: - Previous experience working in a care enviroment

Skills Knowledge and Abilities

Essential: - Knowledge of personal care and related procedures

Desirable: - Demonstrate knowledge of roles and responsibilities within clinical setting; - Keyboard skills

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

24 September 2026

Last checked

28 September 2026

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Wye Valley NHS Trust

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