Senior Support Worker | Sponsorship is Available

Position: Senior Support Worker

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum

Location: Wolverhampton

Employer: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Application Deadline: September 20^th, 2026

Job summary

We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated individuals to support the Physiotherapy & Occupational Teams at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. You must be able to demonstrate an empathetic and responsive approach to patients and be flexible in your approach to work.

This post specifically aligns to our stroke community pathway, where you will be supported by a team of specialist clinicians to deliver stroke rehabilitation in an outpatient and community setting.

There will be a requirement to work on a 7 day rota to provide weekend & Bank Holiday cover . Car driving is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out specialised programmes of care and related tasks/duties which have been pre-selected and appropriately delegated by a qualified member of staff.
• Carry out assessments/therapeutic interventions that do not require specialist skills of a Physiotherapist/ Occupational Therapist, but demands greater skills, knowledge, experience and training than that of an Assistant.
• Expected to report to the qualified members of the team for redirection and advice as necessary or as per protocols/guidelines
• Adequately structured specialist training will have been provided by appropriate qualified staff prior to undertaking these assignments, for which the assistant has been judged fully ‘competent’ to perform by a qualified member of staff.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience care, sports science equivalent

Desirable

• Experience of Therapy support role

Qualification

Essential

• Therapuetic qualification or sports science

Desirable

• GCSE Maths & English, Science

Experience

Essential

• NHS experience

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.

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