Hospital to Home Support Worker x2

Hospital to Home Support Worker

Age UK Leeds is a leading local voluntary sector organisation providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in Leeds.

Are you looking for a role that is varied and challenging, where you have the potential to make a real difference and improve the lives of older people in Leeds? If so, we at Age UK Leeds are recruiting for a Hospital to Home Support Worker to work as part of our Hospital to Home service.

Hospital to Home Support Worker

Scale 5 £ 26,459 pro rata

Part Time: 56 hours over the course of a fortnight. This averages at 28 hours per week and requires working alternate weekends. Current service hours are between 08:30am and 7pm but these may alter based on the needs of the service and funding.

Wednesday 04th February 2026

Week Ending 15/02/26 or 22/02/26

Age UK Leeds, Leeds City Centre

In this role you will work as part of the Hospital to Home Team, who provide transportation to facilitate hospital discharge and who carry out support tasks within people’s homes to prevent further hospital admissions. The team also assess individuals’ wider support needs and effectively signpost and refer onto other organisations to ensure longer term support is put in place.

Our service prides itself on its “Home First” and patient‑centred approach and supports those over 50, who have suffered a period of illness that has affected their independence following a hospital admission or visit to A&E. We work closely with professionals from across the Health & Social Care sector and a range of other agencies to encourage clients to access services that will improve their health and wellbeing and retain their independence.

This may involve activities such as a Pre‑Discharge Home Check to ensure that the patient’s home is secure, warm and ready for their arrival and/or identifying potential support needs based upon each individual’s needs, such as hand rails/trip risks etc.

You must have good communication and organisational skills and the ability to assess and respond to the needs of older people. Problem solving and using your initiative, whether lone‑working or as part of a team, to provide support, you will work from our base at St James’ University Hospital and out in the community. This is a hugely rewarding role delivering many different aspects of emotional and practical support to a wide range of patients.

If you are passionate about making a difference and have empathy towards others then we would love to hear from you. Full training will be provided.

It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. adults at risk, children or both).

To apply for this role please download the following documents from our Age UK Leeds website which make up the application pack. Please note that all applicants must complete the application form as we do not accept CVs.

• Application Form
• Age UK Leeds Background
• Equality and Diversity Policy
• Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form
• Job Description
• Person Specification
• Recruitment of Ex‑Offenders Policy
• Tell us what you think

Please submit your completed application and monitoring form to our HR Officer by email at huma or by post to Human Resources, Age UK Leeds, Bradbury Building, Mark Lane, Leeds, LS2 8JA
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Please note that postal applications must reach us the working day before the deadline in order to be considered for shortlisting.

For further information about applying for the role contact the HR Officer on .

Application packs may be available in other formats on request.