Generic Support Worker - Community Response Teams
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing high-standard healthcare to patients in their homes within the community, focusing on short-term rehabilitation, reablement, and recovery to prevent hospital admissions and support post-hospital recovery. You will work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team, collaborating with patients, families, and other healthcare professionals. The aim is to motivate individuals towards recovery and independence, delivering holistic, person-centred care.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver a high standard of healthcare to patients living within their own homes.
- Facilitate short term rehabilitation, reablement and recovery.
- Avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and enable patients to recover following an acute hospital stay.
- Work closely with patients and their families, nursing and therapy colleagues.
- Undertake duties delegated by the Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams.
- Provide holistic, person centred, compassionate health care to patient's 18 years and over.
Essential criteria
- A levels ( 3) or Level 3 national certificate or Level 3 diploma or Senior Healthcare support worker apprenticeship or Mathematics and English to Level 2: Functional Skills/GCSE Grade C
- Proactively undertakes relevant specialist or departmental training in order to achieve required knowledge and competency for role
- Ability to problem solve, prioritise and escalate work related issues
- Competent IT skills and the ability to use digital platforms and maintain business related information
- Ability to use a range of communication, negotiation and motivation skills using a variety of formats including verbal, written and virtual
- Able to learn from experiences and demonstrate change
- Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid UK driving licence
- Experience of managing allocated tasks independently within own competency and taking responsibility for decision making
- Experience of working within a team and with the general public
- Practical awareness of issues affecting safety and risk
- Practical knowledge of role, including good understanding of role applied for
Desirable criteria
- Up to date personal portfolio of learning
- Evidence of transferable workplace training and competencies
- Experience of working within a health/social care or educational environment
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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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Generic Support Worker - Community Response Teams
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
Do you want to make a difference to people's lives within the community you love, working as part of a welcoming and supportive team?
We are looking for people that are kind, compassionate, creative, problem solvers, with excellent communication skills, to join our expanding team across the York and South Hambleton and Ryedale areas. Within your role you will form a crucial part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team, delivering a high standard of healthcare to patients living within their own homes, facilitating short term rehabilitation, reablement and recovery in order to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and enable patients to recover following an acute hospital stay.
You will work closely with patients and their families, nursing and therapy colleagues within the team, and will build connections with health and social care partners across the local system. Taking a reablement approach the service supports people to return to, and / or, remain in their own home.
We are looking for candidates with the ability to motivate individuals, to aid their recovery and maximise independence in order to achieve the goals that matter to them.
Main duties of the job
You will undertake duties delegated by the
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