Contact information
For any enquires, please email midyorks.resourcing@nhs.net and we will respond to you as soon as possible.
About the role
Thank you for your interest in working for The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust as a Healthcare Support Worker.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to personally make a difference to our patients lives and the lives of their carers and relatives every single day. Our Healthcare Support Workers are at the heart of our multidisciplinary teams who support our patients by assisting the Registered Nurses in planning, delivering and evaluating care. This will require you to:
- be able to communicate effectively with a broad range of individuals, both verbally and in writing;
- share our commitment to maintaining high standards in everything we do;
- demonstrate that you can work effectively within a team that behaves in accordance with our values.
The roles are varied and busy as you will be working a variety of shifts including long days, nights, weekends and bank holidays. We will support you to achieve full training for your core duties at our award-winning Healthcare Academy. This will include achievement of a national Care Certificate, an introduction to the essentials you will need to be a Healthcare Support Worker at the Trust, and a commitment to supporting your continued development.
This is the perfect opportunity for those individuals that are wanting to start their career in healthcare.
Main duties
No previous experience in a health care setting is required.
It is essential that within your application you are able to demonstrate an understanding of the role and responsibilities, able to prove how you develop and maintain positive working relationships, along with evidencing how you would demonstrate our Trust values of respect, improving, caring, and high standards.
The minimum hours available for this role is 23 hours per week but full time hours are also available. You must be able to commit to the standard shift pattern for this role which includes long days, nights, weekend and bank holidays.
If you are shortlisted you will be invited to a face to face assessment centre in June, where we will ensure that you share our Trust values of respect, improving, caring and high standards. Unfortunately due to the nature of the assessments there is no capacity for a virtual interview. This advert may be closed early should we receive a large amount of applications.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further information.
Please note that this role is not on the Home Office list of occupations eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Key requirements
If you are interested in this role, the following skills are essential:
- Good time management skills including the ability to work to set deadlines
- Able to communicate clearly and concisely over the phone, face to face and written
- Able to maintain positive working relationships and work well as part of a team
- Maintain a safe working environment for self and others
- Willingness to take on tasks
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work flexibly, quickly, and accurately
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Our benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
Skilled worker sponsorship
You can find out more about skilled worker and health and care visas on our careers site.
