# Health Care Support Worker - Stroke Unit

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** Wycombe Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09T13:41:47.215Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/High_Wycombe/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Stroke/Stroke-v8246641
- **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Do you want to be a Healthcare Assistant and join one of the best Stroke Units in the UK?

Our stroke service is the designated 24 hour thrombolysis centre for Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire with 15 hyper- acute beds and 27 acute rehabilitation beds.

### Main duties of the job

Working as a Healthcare Assistant, you will be part of a busy multi-disciplinary team who are dedicated in providing individualised, evidence based stroke care management.

With the support of a stroke practice development sister, stroke specialist nurses and the Trust’s education department, we are able to offer a range of education and development opportunities, including in-house training and external courses.

Working across hyper-acute, acute and step down areas, you will have the opportunity to continue to progress your professional development, gain specialist knowledge in the care of acute stroke and skills in caring for rehabilitation patients.

Please note you if you are shortlisted for interview, you will be required to sit a competency based assessment

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### EXPERIENCE

**Essential**

- Experience of working with people, ideally in a front-line customer service role
- Experience of providing person centred care

### BEHAVIOURS & VALUES

**Essential**

- Flexibility in shift/working patterns to meet the needs of the service.

### EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

**Desirable**

- Level 2 or Level 3 (NVQ) in health and Social Care or equivalent relevant experience
- Willing to work towards Level 2 functional skills (Math & English)
- Care Certificate/working towards

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10558339)
- [person specification (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10558340)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10558341)

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