Clinical Support Worker

Job summary
Are you passionate about healthcare and making a real difference in people's lives? Join our dynamic team on the Short Stay Unit at King's Mill Hospital.
As a Clinical Support Worker, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with skilled professionals in a multi-disciplinary environment, delivering high-quality care to a diverse range of patients. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and contribute to the well-being of the local community.
You'll play a key role in providing exceptional support to our clinical teams, ensuring that patients receive the best care possible during their time of need. This role is both challenging and rewarding, offering the chance to make a real impact in the healthcare field.

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs
- Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Details
Date posted: 28 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 214-UEC-8311190
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4JL
, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities: To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Knowledge

Essential

• Must understand basic requirements for personalised and individualised care.
• Recognition of a person's right for privacy and dignity

Desirable

• Awareness of Safeguarding issues

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
• Care Certificate
• Apprenticeship Level 3 in Care or equivalent vocational experience

Further Training

Essential

• Ability to attend 3 day clinical induction
• Committed to attending further training and development as identified

Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate clear and robust verbal and written English communication skills
• Experience of working as a team
• Previous care work experience
• Previous face-to-face customer care experience

Desirable

• Previous experience in a hospital setting

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Flexible approach
• Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends

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.

Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4JL
, United Kingdom

Employer's website: Apply through our website

For questions about the job, contact: Acting Ward Sister, Jessica Hobson, ,