The closing date is 20th Aug 2026
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Anticipated Interview date(s) August 2026
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Job summary
Are you an organised, proactive Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) looking for your next opportunity?
We are looking for a HCSW to join our friendly team, embedded into our duty team at Hampshire CAMHS New Forest. You will play a vital role in supporting the effective running of the service and ensuring a high-quality experience for children, young people and their families. You role will involve responding to duty enquiries and supporting clinicians in duty reviews.
We are looking for 37.5 hours a week on a Monday to Friday.
Please contact Ellie Griffiths at
[email protected] if you have any questions regarding the post.
At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
This role will assist and support the multi-disciplinary mental health clinicians working with the Community CAMHS Team.
The role with include some patient facing work (including both children and families), liaison with wider networks supporting the families, such as school or children's social care and supporting the Team Duty Clinician.
This role will demonstrate excellent communication skills; using these skills to engage with patients with complex and at times challenging needs, as well as communicating in a succinct and clear fashion to the wider team in meetings and through reports.
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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
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description 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.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent.
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Qualification at level 3 or in Health and Social Care or other relevant subject or equivalent experience.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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For help with your application, contact:
Ellie Griffiths
[email protected]
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 3
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Salary
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£25760.00 to £27476.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
348-CFS-11975
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Job locations
Unit 40 Chapel Lane
Rushington Business Park, Chapel Lane
Totton
Hampshire
SO40 9LA
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Attachments
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Job Description
Job Description - Band 3 - Health Care Support Worker (HCSW).pdf – 269KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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