Trainee Healthcare Support Worker - Mental Health
Open the door to your NHS career today. Discover how you can earn while you learn.
Join our Healthcare Support Worker development (HCSWD) programme, where you will learn on the job at Ravenswood House in Fareham under Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust over a 6-month period.
Pay Rates:
Main duties of the job
As a trainee HCSW in Mental Health, you'll learn key skills, such as:
* Taking basic observations, explaining treatment, and updating patient records.
* Supporting patients with everyday activities, including assisting at mealtimes.
* Providing emotional support and reassurance to patients and their families.
* Monitoring patients physical and mental health and keeping accurate records.
* Supervising patients to ensure their safety, managing common emergencies, and performing risk assessments.
* Working individually and as part of a team, supporting registered Nurses and other healthcare practitioners in providing patient care.
* Comply with Trust and local policies and procedures including Safeguarding, Infection Prevention and Control.
The Ideal Candidate
What you'll need:
* As an entry level role, you do not need any previous healthcare experience.
* A passion for care as well as following the six enduring values that underpin compassion in practice. The 6Cs are defined as: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment.
* To be over the age of 18 or turning 18 before placement.
* Able to work at least 30 hours a week across early, late and nights during the programme.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Benefitsof joining HCSWD
* Work this week, get paid next week
* Paid annual leave and build holiday allowance
* Provide care, safety, and welfare for patients
* Join the NHS family and become a part of the healthcare team
* Dedicated training and supervised shifts with support from your ward/area and skilled mentors.
About the Trust
Ravenswood House is for people with serious mental illness and/or personality disorder who need to receive their care in a secure environment. Ravenswood House is comprised of three medium secure wards and two low secure wards. Most of the patients have either committed a criminal offence, or have challenging behaviour.
Job responsibilities
What's next?
* Attendance of Assessment Day - TBC
* Attendance of 3 FREE classroom training days Planned for 27th April to 30th April 2026
After the programme
Once you have completed the placement and the Care Certificate 15 Standards, you can work as a HCSW or HCA for the Trust at any of their locations, and at any of our NHS Professionals partner Trusts, through the bank.
As your first step in healthcare with the NHS, this could provide you with the opportunity to progress your career by accessing further training outside of the programme. In time, you could become a Senior Healthcare Assistant. After that, you could then apply to train as an Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate, enabling further career avenues such as a Nurse, Podiatrist or Midwife.
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Disclaimer
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* Basic English and Maths skills are required, otherwise no specific qualifications are required.
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