Job Location : Petersfield, UK
Open the door to your NHS career today. Discover how you can earn while you learn.
Join our Healthcare Support Worker development (HCSWD) programme, where you will learn on the job at Petersfield Community Hospital, under Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. If you have no healthcare experience, you'll join our 6-month supervised placement. If you have some experience, you will be fast tracked via our 3-month placement.
Pay Rates:
Days: £11.44, Saturdays/Nights: £16.13, Sunday/Bank Hols: £20.94
Why might this job interest you?
During your placement, you'll work towards achieving the widely recognised Care Certificate with the training you need to become a Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW). Also known as Healthcare Assistant (HCA). Throughout, you'll have supportive supervision from your mentor/Ward Manager.
Once you've graduated as a HCSW, you can progress your career by accessing further training. This career path may lead to potential roles such as Senior Healthcare Assistant to Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate, enabling further career avenues such as a Nurse or Midwife.
Where will you be working?
Petersfield Community Hospital provides a range of community services, including two rehabilitation wards, Cedar and Rowan Wards. Rowan ward is a general rehabilitation ward which also cares for people at the end of their lives (palliative care).
Main ResponsibilitiesAs a trainee HCSW, you'll learn key skills, such as:
The benefits we can offer you in return:
What you'll need:
What's next?
If you're successful, you'll be invited to an interview and assessment day on the 4th December 2024, followed by a 4-day classroom training from 6th-9th January 2025 and an induction week before you start.
"As a result of the HCSWD programme, I am now a qualified Healthcare Support Worker and currently pursuing my dream to qualify as a Nurse." Lynda Akpan, HCSW
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Disclaimer
Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Salary : 11.44 - 20.94
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