Urgent Community Response Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
Join the Royal Devon as an Urgent Community Response Support Worker, delivering high-standard care to patients in their homes. This role involves providing personal care, promoting nutritional needs, and assisting in recovery to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharges. You will work as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, responding to urgent situations across Sidmouth, Seaton, Axminster, and surrounding areas. Comprehensive training and induction, including the National Care Certificate, will be provided.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver a high standard of care to patients in their homes.
- Provide personal care and promote nutritional needs.
- Assist in the recovery and recuperation of patients.
- Respond to urgent situations to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
- Facilitate timely discharges home from hospital.
- Work as a valued member of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team.
Essential criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable criteria
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- General Requirements
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Urgent Community Response Support Worker
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about people and looking to continue your career in healthcare? Or as you have some healthcare experience you are keen to join an innovative and dynamic NHS Trust thats really going places? Join us as an Urgent Community Response Support Worker, get paid while you continue to learn and develop your career with the Royal Devon.
Every day, you will make a huge difference to the lives of the people we care for, delivering a high standard of care alongside your colleagues. Providing personal care, promoting nutritional needs, and assisting in the recovery and recuperation of patients on their journey to better health are just some aspects of this essential role.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than
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