Support Worker
This is a vital team role providing dedicated support to a senior colleague with disabilities, enabling them to carry out their responsibilities effectively and contribute fully in the workplace.
The postholder will deliver administrative and practical support, including drafting correspondence, managing emails, minute-taking, and assisting with office equipment and technology. They will also provide logistical support, including travel arrangements and carrying work-related items where required.
The role involves practical workplace assistance in line with the Access to Work scheme, including supporting safe movement around the workplace, assisting with wheelchair manoeuvring, and helping the colleague access workplace facilities such as breaks.
The postholder will contribute to an inclusive and enabling working environment and support the colleague's mental health and wellbeing day-to-day.
This 37.5-hour-per-week post is funded by Access to Work and involves a mix of office-based and home working in Leeds, with occasional offsite visits, weekend working and overnight stays.
This role does not include personal care or domestic tasks. All assistance must directly relate to overcoming workplace accessibility barriers, consistent with Access to Work guidance.
The organisation promotes the employment of disabled people and will make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate.
Supporting the employee to complete day-to-day administrative tasks, including drafting correspondence, reports and assets, managing emails, organising files and documents, scheduling and coordinating meetings, appointments and diary management
Taking notes or minutes on the colleague’s behalf including support to create to do lists, communications plans during meetings and circulating actions as required
Supporting with the use of office equipment, software and technology including filming and recording equipment
Assisting with travel and logistics arrangements where needed
Carrying out any other administrative tasks as reasonably requested by the employed colleague
Providing practical assistance to help the employee within the workplace, in line with the Access to Work scheme. This may include:
Supporting safe movement around the workplace, including assistance with manoeuvring the wheelchair where needed to access workspaces or equipment.
Carrying work‑related items (e.g., laptop, files or work materials) where disability‑related barriers prevent the employee from doing so.
Where workplace facilities are inaccessible, assisting the employee by making drinks or retrieving lunch to enable the employee to access required breaks.
Contribute to an inclusive and enabling working environment
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. As this post is funded through Access to Work, you will be employed by NHS England for tax purposes only.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
As an Administrative Support Worker (Access to Work), the post holder will support a colleague with a physical disability in their role, in an empowering way, to enable them to deliver high quality, insight-led communications and engagement for their assigned area(s).
In particular, the post holder will provide support with a range of practical and administrative tasks in the usual workplace, the individual's own home and occasionally out of the office.
Boundaries of the Role:
The role does not include personal care or domestic tasks.
Any assistance must relate directly to overcoming workplace accessibility barriers, consistent with Access to Work guidance.
The Support Worker is not responsible for preparing food
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
