• Job Description

  Req#: C9246-25-0850?language=en&page=7&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  If you have a passion for helping people the timing couldn't be better - come and see what NSFT have to offer!

  It's more than just a job, it's a chance to make a real difference for our service users doing what you love.

  Join our Blickling Ward team, where all our people are valued, can thrive and make a difference.

  We are looking to recruit 2 x Clinical Support Workers to join our Blickling ward team based at Julian Hospital for a fixed term - 12 months (maternity cover).

  Main duties of the job

  You need to be kind, supportive and express the below listed qualities to provide the best care to our service users and their families:

  • Be approachable and interested in people
  • Be confident in talking with people and comfortable with helping people from diverse range of backgrounds, sexual orientation, culture, religion.
  • Have the ability to empathise without giving advice before speaking with your clinical team
  • Have non-judgmental attitude and be an active lister
  • Be perceptive to notice changes
  • Be calm in difficult circumstances or in crisis
  • Be able to protect boundaries especially in distressing situations
  • Have an awareness of and the ability to adhere to strict confidentiality rules
  • Have a good awareness of safeguarding

  About us

  You must be available to commit and work on a shift pattern, which includes days, nights, and weekends:

  • 7.00 am - 19.30 pm
  • 19.00 pm - 7.30 am

  **** Unfortunately, we will NOT offer just nights or just weekend shifts.

  What we can offer you...

  We want to support you to succeed and be your very best with opportunities for training and development; along with the support of experienced managers, team members and pastoral mentors.

  Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32 days), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets and high street stores.

  Details

  Date posted

  23 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 3

  Salary

  £24,937 to £26,598 a year Gross per annum

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  246-CEN7275938

  Job locations

  Blickling ward, Julian Hospital

  Bowthorpe road

  Norwich

  NR23TD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Our primary focus is on collaborative working, placing great emphasis on patient centred care.

  Blickling ward is a 18 bed ward for assessment and treatment. We care for older adults (female patients) who have a functional diagnosis. Often the patients also have complex presentations and a variety of physical health concerns. As a ward, we provide holistic patient centred care, specific to each individual.

  What we can offer you...

  We want to make working for NSFT a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

  We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process.

  Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Our primary focus is on collaborative working, placing great emphasis on patient centred care.

  Blickling ward is a 18 bed ward for assessment and treatment. We care for older adults (female patients) who have a functional diagnosis. Often the patients also have complex presentations and a variety of physical health concerns. As a ward, we provide holistic patient centred care, specific to each individual.

  What we can offer you...

  We want to make working for NSFT a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

  We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process.

  Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Previous experience within the care sector

  Desirable

  • Experience in Mental Health

  Other

  Essential

  • Fitness to undergo personal safety training.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Care Certificate - must be achieved within first 12 weeks of employment
  • NVQ L2/3 in H&SC or Diploma L2/3 in H&SC or apprenticeship L2/3 in H&SC

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to work without direct supervision, liaising appropriately with other practitioners in the team

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Previous experience within the care sector

  Desirable

  • Experience in Mental Health

  Other

  Essential

  • Fitness to undergo personal safety training.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Care Certificate - must be achieved within first 12 weeks of employment
  • NVQ L2/3 in H&SC or Diploma L2/3 in H&SC or apprenticeship L2/3 in H&SC

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to work without direct supervision, liaising appropriately with other practitioners in the team

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

  Address

  Blickling ward, Julian Hospital

  Bowthorpe road

  Norwich

  NR23TD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

  Address

  Blickling ward, Julian Hospital

  Bowthorpe road

  Norwich

  NR23TD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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