Health Care Support Worker

Overview

Go back Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 05 February 2026

The National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine delivers biopsychosocial holistic care for people with complex persistent physical symptoms and physical / psychological comorbidities.

The NICPM is an eight bed specialist inpatient unit based at Leeds General Infirmary. It is a unique service which has a history over many years of delivering services within Leeds and West Yorkshire, and since 2009 has been successfully treating patients from across the UK.

Our team specialise in helping people with the following types of problems:

• Severe and complex persistent physical symptoms and illness
• Psychological difficulties affecting the management of long-term physical health conditions (physical / psychological comorbidities) at a serious level of severity
• Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

Our aim is to help people make significant improvements to their health and quality of life. Our clinical outcomes are very good, and patient/carer feedback is positive.

Our healthcare support workers are much valued within the team and work closely with our service users in delivering individualised rehabilitation programmes to optimise their function and support them to achieve their goals of admission.

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will have the opportunity to learn skills and train to be a key member of our inpatient team. You will play a vital role in improving lives on a daily basis in an interesting environment where every day is different.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing a high standard of care by assisting in and carrying out a range of duties under the direction and supervision of a registered clinician.
• Work as part of the clinical team, assisting in delivering patient centred care, which promotes privacy, dignity and respect for the individual.
• Assist with the care of service users, particularly in relation to activities of daily living and other treatments as indicated by the registered nurse and other care professionals.
• Actively participate in group work and therapeutic activities under the supervision of a registered nurse and other care professionals.
• To offer support to service users through effective communication and promote communication with patients who have difficulties

It is important that our service users have connections with the community outside of hospital. This may include accompanying a service user to an appointment, shopping, or a visit to a community service for example.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

As a health care support worker, you will be expected to work with service users, their carers and members of the multi- disciplinary team, to provide care to those with complex mental health and physical health care needs.

The successful candidate will be positive and enthusiastic in their approach, with a calm and confident manner when dealing with the needs of the service users. You will have excellent communication skills, and will demonstrate that you have the ability to form and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers

You will be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in, and be committed to, involving service users in all aspects of their care. The role requires the successful candidate to support and promote the individual assessment, care and therapeutic interventions for each service user as part of their rehabilitation

We are looking for individuals who:

• Have ideally some previous experience of working in a health care setting.
• An…