Healthcare Support Worker - Lower Limb Service
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working as a Healthcare Support Worker within the Lower Limb Therapy Service, delivering gold standard leg ulcer treatments to patients across Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Outpatient Clinics. You will perform limb reshaping, apply compression therapy, and measure for compression hosiery/wraps. The service aims to promote health, facilitate healing for lower limb ulceration, and maximize patient independence. You will also assist with yearly well leg assessments.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/experience
- Basic IT skills - Microsoft Word & Email use
Desirable criteria
- Tissue Viability experience or qualification
- Knowledge and experience
- Able to demonstrate a good level of literacy, numeracy, verbal and written skills
- Demonstrate skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to communicate with individuals of varying levels of understanding
- Good record keeping skills
- Understanding of basic wound care as relevant to the role
- Knowledge of leg ulcer management
- Experience of compression bandage application
- Specific skills
- Experience of working in a caring environment
- Demonstrate an understanding of the rights of the patient
- Demonstrate an understanding of Health & Safety within a healthcare setting
- Experience of leg ulcer management
- Compression bandage application
- Tissue Viability experience
- Qualifications and Training
- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/experience
- Basic IT skills - Microsoft Word & Email use
- Tissue Viability experience or qualification
- Knowledge and experience
- Able to demonstrate a good level of literacy, numeracy, verbal and written skills
- Demonstrate skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to communicate with individuals of varying levels of understanding
- Good record keeping skills
- Understanding of basic wound care as relevant to the role
- Knowledge of leg ulcer management
- Experience of compression bandage application
- Specific skills
- Experience of working in a caring environment
- Demonstrate an understanding of the rights of the patient
- Demonstrate an understanding of Health & Safety within a healthcare setting
- Experience of leg ulcer management
- Compression bandage application
- Tissue Viability experience
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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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Healthcare Support Worker - Lower Limb Service
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
You will work collaboratively, under direct and indirect supervision of Registered Nurses as a member of the Lower Limb Therapy Service, to deliver gold standard leg ulcer treatments to patients. You will cover across TSDFT Outpatient Clinics
You provide leg ulcer management treatments as required, to include limb reshaping, delegated patient specific compression therapy, and measuring for compression hosiery/wraps as required. To assist in yearly well leg assessments for patients under the LLTS leg leg program
The service aims to promote health and wellbeing, facilitate timely healing for lower limb ulceration and maximise independent living for our patients.
Main duties of the job
- Work as part of a peripatetic specialist team in Trust wide outpatient clinics delivering leg ulcer management treatments, to include wound bed preparation and compression therapy treatments.
- Be responsible in the preparation of clinics at the beginning and end of the working day. Complying with infection control protocol.
- Actively support patients encouraging self-care to prevent leg ulceration recurrence, post healing with the LLTS.
- Accompany RN to patients' homes to deliver specialist assessments to housebound patients under the ca
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