Job Description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Foundation Healthcare Trust has exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Support Worker to join the Havant Community Care Team. The post covers five days per week and working one weekend in four.
Working in the community you will be providing care to housebound patients' with complex care needs, enabling patients to receive the care they need in their own home.
This is an excellent opportunity if you are thinking of joining a community team or broadening and gaining new experiences. We are looking for enthusiastic, caring & motivated professional with excellent clinical & communication skills, who has the ability to work autonomously, supporting the team lead to manage the case load and staff development.
The post holders must have relevant experience in health care and demonstrate a proactive and positive attitude to learning the skills required to fulfill the role.
You will be joining a leading organisation that is both forward thinking and innovative. HIOWH NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the quality of community health services across Hampshire and takes pride in rewarding the success of its staff.
Access to a vehicle and possession of a full driving license is essential.
Further enquiries and informal visits are welcome please call: Community Matron Christine Derrick: 07733101249
Main duties of the job
To work within the multi-disciplinary Integrated Care Team that delivers community based services to a GP Practice population, undertaking nursing tasks within agreed parameters, set out by the registered practitioners.
The job will include home visiting and lone working without direct supervision.
The scope of the role will focus on supporting admission avoidance, early supported discharge and promotion of independence and assisting in the effective management of patients with long term conditions and older people with mental health problems.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
01 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
24,937 to 26,598 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
348-PSE-9779
Job locations
Basepoint Havant
Unit 37, Harts Farm Way
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 1HS
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Literate and Numerate
• NVQ 3 in health care related subject or willingness to undertake
• Full Driving License

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience as a care assistant in a health care environment.
• Evidence of delivering care delegated from a range of registered professionals, in particular nursing.
• Evidence of ability to implement prescribed programmes of care for a range of conditions.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Literate and Numerate
• NVQ 3 in health care related subject or willingness to undertake
• Full Driving License

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience as a care assistant in a health care environment.
• Evidence of delivering care delegated from a range of registered professionals, in particular nursing.
• Evidence of ability to implement prescribed programmes of care for a range of conditions.

Skills Required