Health Care Support Worker - Leominster
Healthcare Support Worker \- Leominster Community Hospital Band 2
Make a real difference every day
Ready to start or grow your career in healthcare? Join our supportive and compassionate community hospital teams, where your role truly matters and every day is an opportunity to improve a patient’s experience.
We are a 26 bedded Community Hospital, set in the historic market town of Leominster, located north of Herefordshire.
Why choose our community hospitals?
✨ Person\-centred care with a focus on dignity and respect
✨ Opportunity to really get to know your patients
✨ Make a meaningful difference to patients’ daily lives
✨ Supportive teams who value kindness and compassion
✨ A strong focus on learning, development and progression
As a HCSW, you will play a vital role in delivering high\-quality, dignified care, supporting patients throughout their stay.
You will:
Support patients with daily living needs including personal care, nutrition, and mobility
Promote and maintain patient dignity, privacy, and independence
Deliver care that considers the whole person, not just their condition
Build meaningful relationships and get to know your patients as individuals
Help to improve each patient’s day through compassionate care and interaction
Follow and promote infection prevention and control practices
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support recovery and safe discharge
Contribute to a positive patient experience where people feel valued and respected
Why Join Us?
Friendly, supportive ward teams where you are valued
A strong culture focused on patient experience and quality care
Opportunities to develop your skills and confidence
Clear progression pathways, including apprenticeships into nursing and clinical roles
Ongoing training and career development support
A focus on staff wellbeing and work\-life balance
Whether you’re looking for full\-time or part\-time work, we offer a welcoming, inclusive environment that values your contribution and invests in your future.
Grow Your Career With Us
We are committed to helping you develop. Whether you are new to healthcare or looking to progress, we offer structured development opportunities, including apprenticeship pathways to support your journey into nursing or other healthcare professions.
Be part of something special
Join a close\-knit team where compassion, respect, and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do — and where you can truly make a difference to people’s lives every day.
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Informal visits are warmly welcomed — come and meet the team and see what makes our community hospitals special.
For more information or to arrange informal visit please contact
Beverley Johns beverley.johns@wvt.nhs.uk 01568 617338
Easily accessible from Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Monmouth, and South Wales — offering the chance to work in a beautiful rural setting with strong community connections.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross\-on\-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values \- Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence \- are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.
As a Health Care Support Worker, you will be a hugely valuable support to our Nursing and Midwifery teams providing care to our patients. Every day will be different and you will work alongside the rest of the team carrying out a wide range of tasks and assisting with care to support the needs of the patients and their families.
Examples of what you may do as part of your role:
Washing and dressing patients
Serving meals and feeding patients
Helping patients to move around
Making beds
Talking to patients and their families
Monitoring patient condition
Skills and personal attributes needed:
Caring and kind
Cheerful and friendly
Keen to support patients with their personal needs including washing and toileting
Able to follow direct instructions
Happy to work in a team but also able to use own initiative
Have good listening and communication skills
Be well organised
A Full time position are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements. This opportunity is available for candidates who have the right to work in the UK. Applications from underrepresented groups including LGBT\+, Ethnic Minority or disabled people are particularly welcome.
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