Support Worker Intensive Support Team
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Sandown, PO36 9EAView 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
9 days leftJob description
The Community Learning Disabilities Team on the Isle of Wight are seeking applications from highly motivated individuals to work as a Support Worker w...
- To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their safety and maintain them in the community environment.
- To support service users to identify their needs and to assist practitioners within the Intensive Support Team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
- To have the individual service users' needs at the fore at all times and use agreed values and skills to underpin their day-to-day work.
- To assist the practitioners in administering agreed standards of care to all service users.
- To be responsible for building a rapport with service users which may entail working with them in a setting other than that of the service user's home i.e.: visiting community resources.
- Answer the telephone and take messages, maintaining confidentiality and referring relevant calls to qualified staff.
- To help identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service user's progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users care.
- Actively participate as necessary in risk assessment and risk management practises, in line with Risk Policy.
- Attend outpatient appointments and clinical reviews with selected service users as required.
- Encourage and assist service users in leisure, social and recreational activities.
- To support service users to engage effectively with the agreed care plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular basis.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Qualifications
Essential: - Successful applicant must be committed to undertaking educational development appropriate to the role
Desirable: - Maintain an up-to-date awareness of developments in Social and Health Care practice.
Experience
Essential
- To work at all times with due regard for personal safety, adhering to Health & Safety requirements of the service.
- Experience of supporting people with a Learning Disability
- Responsible for following policies and procedures
- An understanding of problems relating to the conditions of mental heath
- Must have access to own vehicle for work purposes and be suitably insured.
- Excellent communication skills
- Working well in a team
- Able to use computer and confident in learning new electronic systems
Desirable: - Knowledge/experience of positive behaviour plans
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
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First seen
21 October 2026
Last checked
23 October 2026
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