Apprentice Health Care Support Worker / Health Care Support Worker

Job overview

We are Mental Health. We are Learning Disability. We are the NHS. 

We are looking for people like you, to support and care for our patients who are suffering from a wide range of mental health conditions, that have required them to have an inpatient hospital stay on our mental health units. 

When you join us as an (Apprentice) health care support worker or HCSW (depending on experience and qualifications) you will spend the first six weeks on our bespoke induction programme which will help you develop all the initial skills that you need to do the role, giving you the confidence to join your ward based team and care for our patients. 

You will be supported, nurtured, and developed along the way by our dedicated education team.  Once you have completed your initial 6 weeks training, and believe us it will fly by, you will then join your inpatient ward -based teams.

As an Apprentice health care support worker we offer you supported on the job training with the potential to enable you to move from Apprentice to a permanent (Band 3), You will progress from Apprentice to Band3 on successful completion of the care certificate, Level 2 apprenticeship in care (to include your end point assessment) and if required, Level 2 functional skills in English and Maths. 

This post will be paid under Annex 21 Arrangements for pay and banding of trainees on £17, 036 per annum.  Please read the attachment in the documents to download section to ensure you are familiar with the salary being paid whilst an apprentice.

If you have already achieved L2 in care along with English and maths at Grade D or above, then annex 21 will not apply and you will enter at Band 3 on £22,816 per annum. 

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Our inpatient wards don’t close, so as you would expect, we do work on a shift basis – our patients need our care and attention 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year; so everyone gets involved working different shifts to ensure our patients receive the very best, this can include, but not limited to earlies, lates, afternoons, long days, short days, nights, weekends, bank holidays. 

You will be active, inclusive member of our multidisciplinary ward based team.  You will have the most direct patient contact out of staff on the ward and engage with the patients on a 1-1 basis or in groups.  You will take the time to get to know our patients and engage them in their own care.  

You will champion life long learning and engage in learning and development opportunities and grow through self reflection. 

From health care support worker, you may then want to progress on to our Trainee Nurse associate (TNA) programme and from there on to our Registered nurse degree apprenticeship (RNDA). The NHS is your oyster!  Take a look at the routes in to the NHS in the documents to download section.

Interviews will take place on 29th April 2024 and cannot be changed.  Candidates who wish to apply for this role must make sure they are available on this day. 

The start date for successful applicants is Monday 13th July  2024. No  annual leave can be taken during the first 6 weeks of training.  Training is delivered at Horton House Oldham, Outram Road Dukinfield, and on your ward.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.