Health Care Support Worker - Pain Speciality
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker to join the Specialist Pain Services at Royal United Hospitals Bath. The role involves supporting patients with complex chronic pain during their specialist rehabilitation, including personal care and daily living activities. You will also help maintain the accommodation and clinic rooms, providing emotional support and assisting with management behaviour techniques. This unique role requires working evenings, nights, and weekends.
Key responsibilities
- Support patients with personal care and activities of daily living.
- Maintain the running of patient accommodation and clinic/therapy rooms.
- Provide emotional support to patients and their families.
- Assist in providing management behaviour techniques.
- Deliver high quality care in line with the Pain Speciality ethos.
- Assist patients with significant physical pain disability using manual handling techniques.
Essential criteria
- Able to understand and communicate in English both verbally and written
- Basic IT skills to access required systems e.g. electronic patient records
- Experience of working within a team
- Experience of caring for patients with chronic pain
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of using with NHS computer systems.
- NHS 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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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Health Care Support Worker - Pain Speciality
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
Hello, my name is Erica Apps, and I am the Lead Nurse for the Pain Speciality at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker in our Specialist Pain Services. The Pain Service is a specialist team working with people with complex chronic pain.
This role is unique and will be an interesting career development for people at any point in their working lives. The role involves working evenings, nights and weekends to support the patients during their specialist pain rehabilitation.
You will be based in Bernard Ireland House (E2) at the RUH within this department we have accommodation for the patients accessing the specialist pain rehabilitation programmes.
We are a professional and supportive team. We understand the pressures that we all face, and we work together to provide outstanding care to all our patients.
If you are interested in this role and would like further information, I would be very happy to welcome you for an informal visit. You can meet the team and talk through the role in more detail and I will answer any questions you may have.
To arrange this please contact me either by telephone:[phone number removed]or by email:[
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