# Health Care Support Worker

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/health-care-support-worker/4e584270-caa0-47b1-9ed8-08864b25d07e
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/health-care-support-worker/4e584270-caa0-47b1-9ed8-08864b25d07e.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Stafford
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (service hours: 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-14T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30T14:51:30.234Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Oswestry/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Health_Care_Support_Worker/Community_Health_Care_Support_Worker-v8121924
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8121924?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Main duties of the job

Under the direction of the key worker deliver interventions with an allocated group of service users with severe and enduring mental health needs.

The interventions will be focussed on assisting the person to identify and achieve their agreed goals of Recovery and help a person explore their barriers to receiving care and looking at creative ways to overcome these barriers.

These will include interventions related to engaging in meaningful occupation, accessing employment, assessing and promoting physical health, social inclusion, activities of daily living and mental health promotion.

The post holder will also be involved in supporting the service user to complete appropriate outcome measure tools and participate in reviews of the service user’s care and effectiveness of the interventions provided.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities

- Establish and maintain relationships with service users, relative/carers and colleagues
- Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, to assist the service user to achieve their recovery goals including; improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.
- Regularly support service-users to access a range of activities and services to maintain their independence and promote their recovery.
- At all times ensure that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals and promote independence.
- Regularly reports and effectively communicates service users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to care coordinators and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Have an awareness of community resources appropriate for the service user to access.
- Involvement in the review of risk, communicating any changes to the teams qualified staff / allocated workers.
- Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, either via telephone or face to face under the supervision of qualified clinicians.
- At all times work within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.

## Job Description

Under the direction of the key worker deliver interventions with an allocated group of service users with severe and enduring mental health needs.

The interventions will be focussed on assisting the person to identify and achieve their agreed goals of Recovery and help a person explore their barriers to receiving care and looking at creative ways to overcome these barriers.

These will include interventions related to engaging in meaningful occupation, accessing employment, assessing and promoting physical health, social inclusion, activities of daily living and mental health promotion.

The post holder will also be involved in supporting the service user to complete appropriate outcome measure tools and participate in reviews of the service user’s care and effectiveness of the interventions provided.

## Responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities

Establish and maintain relationships with service users, relative/carers and colleagues

Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, to assist the service user to achieve their recovery goals including; improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.

Regularly support service-users to access a range of activities and services to maintain their independence and promote their recovery.

At all times ensure that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals and promote independence.

Regularly reports and effectively communicates service users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to care coordinators and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Have an awareness of community resources appropriate for the service user to access.

Involvement in the review of risk, communicating any changes to the teams qualified staff / allocated workers.

Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, either via telephone or face to face under the supervision of qualified clinicians.

At all times work within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Desirable**

- Experience of working with people with Psychosis or substance misuse issues that may struggle to engage with traditional service models

## Documents

- [jd & ps (pdf, 864.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10418230)
- [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957)

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