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Apprentice Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol (BS10 5NB)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 23 October 2026)
Posted on 23 September 2026
Summary
North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients.
Wage
£24,465 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Starting Salary - £24,465
Progression to Band 3 pay once Clinical Skills training is complete
This training role is designed to support ‘new to care’ candidates developing into a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker role.
Training Course
Senior healthcare support worker (level 3)
Hours
Shift patterns across the weeks which may include evenings, nights and weekends. Exact days and shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date
Monday 14 December 2026
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
5
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The Apprentice Senior Healthcare Support Worker is a core member of the team delivering direct care to patients and supporting registered practitioners to deliver high-quality, compassionate health care to people in accordance with assessed needs and a care plan.
You will be working alongside a Registered Nurse to provide essential nursing care and helping your patients with daily living tasks such as:
- Helping patients feel comfortable and move around
- Monitoring patients and performing basic health checks
- Washing, dressing patients and helping them go to the toilet
- Serving meals and helping to feed patients
- Documenting care provided to a high standard
Once progressed into a Senior HCW (Band 3) role, you will carry out a range of clinical duties with minimal/ no supervision, including, for example, blood pressure monitoring, oxygen saturation levels, body temperature, pulse rate and respiration rate, glucose monitoring, collection and testing of urine samples/faecal samples/sputum samples and wound swabs ensuring delivery of high-quality patient care at all times. NB: this list is not exhaustive and will vary depending on the area of work.
This apprenticeship training position will allow you to develop knowledge and skills specific to your needs and your working area. As well as achieving a Level 3 Healthcare qualification, during your programme you will also be supported to obtain your Care Certificate, if not previously completed.
Where you'll work
Southmead Hospital
Westbury on Trym
Bristol
Bristol
BS10 5NB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH WEST ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING PROVIDERS LIMITED
Training course
Senior healthcare support worker (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
Core: Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
Core: Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
Core: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and non-discriminatory person-centred care and support with individuals’ established consent.
Core: Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
Core: Support individuals to make informed and positive lifestyle choices.
Core: Actively seek out and act on opportunities to support individuals to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
Core: Recognise and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing.
Core: Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and well-being.
Core: Promote and monitor access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
Core: Communicate with individuals, their families, carers and others in the workplace using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
Core: Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
Core: Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using infection prevention and control techniques including hand washing, sanitisation, disinfection and personal protective equipment (PPE).
Core: Maintain the safe supply, storage, use and disposal of supplies and equipment.
Core: Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
Core: Take appropriate action in response to concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
Core: Perform basic life support techniques.
Core: Recognise and respond to potential conflict, challenging behaviour or an escalating situation.
Core: Undertake own training and development activities and contribute to the training and development of others.
Core: Participate in appraisal to support professional development.
Core: Reflect on and develop your own practice.
Core: Record and store information related to individuals securely, including the safe use of technology.
Core: Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality, duty of confidence and disclosure.
Core: Participate in and support others with quality improvement activities in the workplace.
Core: Use investigatory techniques to source evidence to validate and improve the delivery of care and support within own scope of practice.
Core: Critically appraise sources of information and apply to practice.
Core: Provide leadership and act as a role model for others within the scope of own role.
Core: Contribute to mentoring and supervision of others in the workplace within the scope of own role.
Core: Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
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Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Assist with tissue viability risk assessments and manage pressure areas.
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Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Obtain and test specimens in line with the care plan.
Options 1, 2, 5 and 6: Adult nursing support, maternity support, children and young people support and allied health professional therapy support: Contribute to signposting to relevant agencies and, discharge or transfer of individuals between services, in line with their care plan.
Options 1, 2, 4 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support, mental health support and children and young people support: Recognise and respond to deteriorations in physical health, mental health and wellbeing.
Option 1: Adult nursing support: Support adults to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing and for managing their own condition.
Option 2: Maternity support: Assist the midwife with teaching, feeding and hygiene needs of babies-parenting skills and antenatal and postnatal exercise.
Option 2: Maternity support: Assist health care professionals with antenatal and newborn screening and provide information to parents about immunisation activities.
Option 2: Maternity support: Provide support to the maternity team by maintaining the supply of resources, instruments and equipment.
Option 2: Maternity support: Support personal care such as providing care for women with urethral catheters.
Option 2: Maternity support: Identify the baby and provide wristband or label in line with local security procedures.
Option 2: Maternity support: Care for the physical needs of babies by undertaking routine healthy baby observations and reporting any abnormalities.
Option 2: Maternity support: Support parents and carers to meet the developmental, nutritional and hygiene needs of babies.
Option 2: Maternity support: Work in partnership with families and other support services to support individuals in difficult circumstances, bereavement and loss.
Option 2: Maternity support: Provide support to the midwife and others in the multi-disciplinary team in an emergency situation during pregnancy, labour, birth or the postnatal period.
Option 3: Theatre support: Complete pre- and post-operative checklists.
Option 3: Theatre support: Support the surgical team to maintain the sterile field.
Option 3: Theatre support: Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
Option 3: Theatre support: Support and monitor the pre-medicated, sedated and unconscious individual.
Option 3: Theatre support: Measure and record an individual’s body fluid balance.
Option 3: Theatre support: Move, position and transport individuals and specialist equipment before, during and after surgery.
Option 3: Theatre support: Prepare the clinical environment and provide surgical instrumentation and supplementary items for the surgical team.
Option 3: Theatre support: Carry out counts for swabs, sharps, instruments and disposable items and take action if something is missing.
Option 3: Theatre support: Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens or blood products.
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