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Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Bures Team

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester & Ipswich, CO4 5JL

Salary

£25,760 to £27,476

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

3 September 2026

3 days left

Job description

Are you an experienced HCSW with a positive, adaptive and enthusiastic outlook looking for an exciting and dynamic role? Do you currently work in a Me...

This unique position offers the right candidate a chance to gain experience across a wide variety of specialities, developing your skills and expertise to become a highly versatile and experienced health care support worker.

By working across diverse clinical areas, you'll build a wealth of knowledge and adaptability, empowering you to thrive in any situation and provide exceptional care. You will need to be flexible and adaptable as you could be supporting multiple areas during a shift - going where the need is greatest.

This role is perfect for someone who is eager to grow, embrace challenges and make a significant impact across the hospital.

We are committed to supporting you on this journey, providing the training and development needed to help you become the very best in this role.

In addition, we offer team rostering allowing you to request as many or as little of your off duty as you like (typically 70-80% of these will be approved), we want you to thrive in your new role while maintaining a healthy work life balance. Choose your own shifts from available long days and nights.

You'll receive 2 day Enhanced Therapeutic Observation and care workshop and a 2 day Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression workshop. You will also be offered supernumerary time in areas you may not have worked in before to build your confidence, knowledge and skills.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience in an acute NHS, mental health or dementia setting

Desirable

  • Experience in enhanced therapeutic observations and care

Qualifications

Essential

  • Care certificate achieved or demonstrable relevant skills
  • Evidence of completed competencies as part of a professional portfolio
  • Level 3 vocational qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Willingness to undertake further study
  • Evidence of functional skills or willingness to undertake

Knowledge

Essential

  • Awareness of physical, psychological and spiritual needs of patient's relatives and carers
  • Awareness of the nature of the carers role in assisting patients to fulfil basic human needs.
  • Knowledge of clinical procedures and observations

Desirable

  • Understanding of risk management, health and safety issues, including safe manual handling.

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

25 August 2026

Last checked

27 August 2026

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About the employer

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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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