NHS Supporting Statement Examples: Band 3, Band 5, Band 6

Band 3 Healthcare Assistant supporting statement, 517 words (517 words)

I am applying for the Band 3 Healthcare Assistant post at Clifton Hospital because rehabilitation is the part of care I am best at, and I want to do it in a team.

I have worked as a care assistant at Rosehill Court, a 42-bed residential home in Poulton, since March 2023. I hold a Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care. I started the Level 3 Diploma in April 2026 and I have completed four units. I am willing and able to finish it in post, and I would welcome doing so.

My day starts with personal care for six named residents. Four of them need full assistance with washing, dressing and toileting. Two need prompting and standing by. I use a hoist with a second carer for one resident and a stand aid for another, and I check both slings before every transfer. I record every element of personal care on our electronic system before I leave the room, because a note written three hours later is a guess.

Teamwork is the criterion I would ask you to test hardest. On a residential unit there is no nurse on the floor at night, so the shift works or it does not. I work in a pair for all moving and handling, and I am the one who calls a pause if a resident is agitated or if the equipment does not look right. In January 2026 a colleague and I disagreed about whether a resident could weight bear that morning. I stopped, we used the hoist, and I flagged it to the senior on duty. Physio reassessed her that week and changed her handling plan. I would rather be slow and right in front of a colleague than fast and wrong.

Communication changes with every resident. Nine of our residents live with dementia. With one I use short sentences, one instruction at a time, and I wait. With another I use a whiteboard because she is profoundly deaf and does not sign. With families I keep to what I saw and what I did, and I say when I do not know something and who will. I have also supported two residents on end of life care, where most of the communication was silence, presence and a hand.

I report changes early. In November 2025 I noticed a resident had gone from two cups of tea a day to one, and that her speech was slightly slurred by mid afternoon. I told the senior, we started a fluid chart, and she was seen by the GP that day with a urinary tract infection. Catching the small change is the part of this job I take most seriously.

I am comfortable with infection prevention, stock rotation and keeping bays clean and tidy, and I have completed training in safeguarding, moving and handling, fire and food hygiene within the last twelve months. I have not performed ECGs, but I have observed them and I would like to be trained.

I am available for full time hours and I can work flexibly across days, nights and weekends.

Band 5 Staff Nurse supporting statement, 556 words (556 words)

I am an RMN applying for the Band 5 Staff Nurse post on Langdale Ward. I qualified in September 2023 and I have spent the last two years on a 20-bed male acute admissions ward at a trust in Staffordshire, so the environment you describe is the one I already work in.

My NMC registration is current and unrestricted, and I revalidated for the first time in September 2026.

Most of my practice is acute admission and early intervention. I assess patients on admission, usually within the first hour, and I use the risk assessment and observation policies to agree a level of observation with the nurse in charge. Last winter I admitted a man in his twenties who was mute on arrival and had been brought in under Section 136. I sat with him for forty minutes without asking questions, then used closed questions he could answer by nodding. We established that he had stopped his medication eleven days earlier. That detail changed his treatment plan the same night.

I write care plans with patients wherever it is possible, and I have learned to write them in their own words rather than mine. A plan that says "I get angry when people stand behind me in the corridor" is used by the team. A plan that says "patient presents with agitation" is not.

Physical health is where acute mental health wards lose people. I complete physical observations myself rather than delegating them when a patient is newly admitted, rapidly tranquillised or on clozapine. In March 2026 I escalated a patient with a resting heart rate of 128 and new ankle swelling to the duty doctor, and she was transferred to the acute trust that evening with a pulmonary embolism. Escalating early and loudly is not an overreaction. It is the job.

I take charge of the ward regularly when the ward manager and deputy are off. That means allocating staff to observations, running handover, and holding the decisions about leave and section paperwork until the doctor is available. I delegate to support workers by name and by task, I check that the person is competent for it, and I go back afterwards to see how it went. Our support workers know the patients better than anyone on a Monday morning, and I ask them first.

I supervise students on placement and I have mentored three first year nursing students since 2024. I give feedback in the moment, privately, and in specifics. I also receive it. My own clinical supervision with my ward manager is monthly and I bring cases to it that did not go well.

I have contributed to two clinical audits, one on the completeness of physical observation charts and one on the recording of leave, and I sit on our Triangle of Care working group. The observation audit found that 14 of 40 charts had a missing entry on the night shift. We changed the point in the shift when the chart is completed, and the repeat audit found two.

I am comfortable with shift work including nights, weekends and bank holidays, and I understand the role includes Section 136 Place of Safety shifts within the 37.5-hour week. I am applying because Langdale is a busy acute ward with a team that is being built, and that is where I learn fastest.

Band 6 MHST Specialist Practitioner supporting statement, 581 words (581 words)

I am a registered mental health nurse with a postgraduate certificate in cognitive behavioural therapy, applying for the Band 6 Specialist Practitioner post in the Mansfield and Ashfield Mental Health Support Team.

I have five years post-qualification experience, the last three in a CAMHS getting help team in Derbyshire, carrying a caseload of around 28 children and young people aged 8 to 18. Before that I worked two years on an adolescent inpatient unit, which is where I learned what happens when early intervention does not arrive.

Multi-agency work in schools is the core of this post and it has been the core of mine. I hold weekly consultation slots in three secondary schools and one primary. In practice that means a standing meeting with the designated safeguarding lead, a drop-in for pastoral staff, and direct work with young people in a room the school has agreed is private. I have learned that the consultation is where the volume is. Of the 61 consultations I held last academic year, 34 were resolved by the school with a plan and did not need a referral to us at all.

I deliver evidence-based interventions directly. My caseload is mainly low intensity CBT for anxiety and low mood, guided self-help with parents of younger children, and exposure work for specific phobias and school avoidance. I use routine outcome measures at every session, and I share the graph with the young person. One 14-year-old with emetophobia moved from complete school non-attendance to four full days a week over eleven sessions. Her RCADS score at discharge was the piece of evidence her parents needed to believe it was real.

I teach. I have designed and delivered a three-session anxiety workshop for parents, delivered five times, and a twilight session for teaching staff on distinguishing distress from disorder. I built the teacher session after a head of year told me she was frightened of saying the wrong thing. The content came from what she was actually worried about, not from what I wanted to teach.

I work within the legal framework rather than around it. I assess Gillick competence before any direct work without parental involvement, I record the reasoning, and I follow the Children Act and local safeguarding thresholds. I have made 12 safeguarding referrals in the last two years and I have taken two to challenge when I disagreed with the threshold decision. Both were reopened.

I manage my own caseload and diary. I work across four sites, I plan a week so that travel is not the thing that cancels a session, and I keep my case records in RiO on the day. I am an autonomous practitioner, and I am also the person who asks for a second opinion when a presentation does not fit.

I supervise. I have offered clinical supervision to two education mental health practitioners in training since 2025, using a structured model with recorded outcomes, and I have had my own supervision monthly throughout.

I hold a full UK driving licence and have a vehicle for business use. I am able to transport a laptop, projector and flip chart between schools, and I am flexible about location and hours, including twilight sessions when that is when staff and parents can attend.

I am applying because a joint health and education team is the right place to do this work, and because 22.5 hours in one locality lets me be a known face in a school rather than a visitor.