Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincoln, LN2 5UAView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
1 November 2026
13 days leftJob description
Francis Willis Unit has a new and exciting opportunity for a keen, enthusiastic and Senior Healthcare Support Worker who holds pride in providing outs...
Applications are invited from highly motivated and dynamic candidates who have a 'can do' attitude to help deliver the Trusts vision and values. This is an exciting, challenging and opportunistic role which will afford the successful candidate to work as part of a supportive team that is focused on delivering high standards of care.
We offer a 24-hour service within our inpatient facilities therefore successful candidates will be required to work unsociable hours, inclusive of nights, weekends, public holidays and shift patterns.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Experience
Essential
- Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a nursing assistant grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting
Desirable: - Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent
Qualifications
Essential
- Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT
- NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent
- NVQ level 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards achievement
Desirable: - Certificate in Community Mental Health; - ECDL
Skills
Essential
- Ability to undertake Reducing and Restrictive Practice (RRP)
- A patient and empathic approach
- Effective communication with service user, other members of the team and outside agencies
- Clear accurate clinical note keeping
- Skills related to Physical healthcare interventions such as urine analysis, phlebotomy, TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results
- IT skills.
- De-escalation Skills
- Planning and organisation skills
Desirable: - Immediate life support; - Venepuncture
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
19 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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