Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker - Weston-Super-Mare
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS TrustWeston Super Mare, South West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust based in Weston Super Mare. The advertised salary is £25,760 to £27,476. It is an Band 3 post. Applications close on 11 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are excited to invite applications for Healthcare Support Workers (HCSWs) to join our teams in Weston Super Mare where we're proud to be at the hea...
Having experience of working as a HCSW or in a care setting is useful but not essential as full training will be given.
- Working as part of a care team to deliver evidence-based interventions to service users with mental health problems.
- Working alongside registered clinicians, a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users' psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.
- Ensuring service users and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope.
- Carrying out observations, engage with service users, encourage tasks of daily living, promote recovery whilst demonstrating excellent communication.
- Learning and understanding how to care for service users that are in mental health crisis by promoting choice and independence in the least restrictive way possible.
Because our patients need us around the clock, you'll need to be able to work a variety of shifts across a 24-hour period, including days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
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How this role compares
We hold 835 NHS vacancies in South West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays less than about 84% of them.
There are 11,887 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,273 of them in South West.
You have 5 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 33 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has 37 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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