Band 3 - Healthcare Support Worker - Callington Road Hospital, Bristol
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role is for a Healthcare Support Worker at Callington Road Hospital, providing compassionate and skilled care to adults in an inpatient mental health setting. You will support service users with mental health problems as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering evidence-based interventions and promoting recovery. The position requires working a variety of shifts, including days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
Key responsibilities
- Work as part of a care team to deliver evidence-based interventions to service users with mental health problems.
- Work alongside registered clinicians, applying therapeutic care skills to contribute to service users' psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.
- Ensure service users and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope.
- Carry out observations, engage with service users, encourage tasks of daily living, and promote recovery whilst demonstrating excellent communication.
- Learn and understand how to care for service users that are in mental health crisis by promoting choice and independence in the least restrictive way possible.
Essential criteria
- The Care Certificate (Cavendish Certificate of Fundamental Care) or equivalent
- Possession of, or the ability and willingness to work towards, an appropriate Level 3 vocational qualification (e.g. Level 3 Diploma in Mental Health or Health and Social Care)
- Possession of, or the ability and willingness to work towards, Level 2 Functional Skills (e.g. GCSE Mathematics and English Language Grade C/4 or above)
- Ability to work with a degree of autonomy, whilst also taking direction from senior colleagues.
- Ability to communicate in written and verbal English to a high standard, and basic numeracy skills.
- Experience within Mental Health
- Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at time
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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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 3 - Healthcare Support Worker - Callington Road Hospital, Bristol
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
We are excited to invite applications for Healthcare Support Workers (HCSWs)**** to join our teams at Callington Road Hospital where we're proud to be at the heart of acute mental health services, providing compassionate & skilled care to adults in an inpatient setting.
HCSWs are vital to our services & play a key role in supporting people with mental health problems to live fulfilling lives as part of a multi-disciplinary team.To succeed in this role, you will need to be highly motivated and passionate about mental healthcare, & genuinely curious about the experiences of people who struggle with the complex challenges of mental illness.
Please ensure you include in your application real examples of how your skills & experience match our values of Passion, Respect, Integrity, Diversity & Excellence. Please don't use AI to write your application, we want to hear your voice coming through your supporting statement .
Face to face interviews will be on Thursday 1st October 2026 .
Unfortunately, sponsorship is not available for this role .
Main duties of the job
Having experience of working as a HCSW or in a care setting is useful but not essential as full training will be gi
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