Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Healthcare Support worker
NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or currently studying in the final year of a degree in nursing
- Healthcare Support worker
Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting
- Healthcare Support worker
Knowledge of nursing standards gained through NVQ qualification or equivalent experience
- Healthcare Support worker
Understanding and application of confidentiality
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Healthcare Support worker
Knowledge or experience of working within a prison or secured environment setting
- Healthcare Support worker
Experience in responding to emergency situations
- Healthcare Support worker
Experience in using SystmOne
- Healthcare Support worker
Experience of working with individuals with Substance Misuse needs
Job summary
Are you a caring and compassionate Bank Healthcare Support Worker? Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills in a Health and Justice setting? You could be a key part of our multi-disciplined healthcare team, providing individualised care for our patients in a prison environment.
Main duties of the job
Our services include Substance Misuse, reception screening, providing agreed care packages, undertaking appropriate physical health observations, clinics such as Phlebotomy, ECG, NHS health checks, sexual health, and health promotion. You will need a good level of communication skills, be a team player and provide high standards of care to patients under the supervision of a qualified nurse/practitioner. If you have NVQ level 3 and a good level of care experience, then we could have the perfect job for you.
About us
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team
We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!
- Access to NHS Pension
- Time for you day (additional day off)
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
- Flexible Working
- Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.
Details
- Date posted: 02 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 3
- Salary: £12.75 to £13.60 an hour plus enhancements paid for weekends, Bank Holidays
- Contract: Bank
- Working pattern: Flexible working
- Reference number: 847-RM-26-VB156
- Job locations: HMPYOI Deerbolt, Bowes Road, Barnard Castle, DL12 9BG, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Substance Misuse monitoring, reception screening, providing agreed care packages, undertaking appropriate physical health observations, clinics such as Phlebotomy, ECG, NHS health checks, sexual health, and health promotion.
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This advert is for Bank Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Deerbolt with Spectrum Community Health CIC in Barnard Castle, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £12.75 to £13.60 an hour. The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 16 Sep 2026.
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