# Health and Social Care Worker Apprentice - HMP Northumberland

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Spectrum Community Health CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Location:** HMP Northumberland
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Care support worker
- **Grade:** Band 2, Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,272 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-03T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20T06:00:13.707Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Northumberland/Spectrum_Community_Health_CIC/Health_Social_Care_Worker_Apprentice/Health_Social_Care_Worker_Apprentice-v8359126
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8359126?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://spectrum-cic.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you a caring and compassionate 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.

### Detailed job description and main 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.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Healthcare Support worker

**Essential**

- Genuine interest and desire to work in Secure Services within Specialism
- Vocational qualification at level 2 or equivalent relevant experience (e.g.GCSE grade 9-4)
- Prepared to study and complete Level 3 qualification (equivalent to A Level/BTEC National level)
- Understanding of basic health care issues.
- Computer literate, and able to use a range of Microsoft Office programmes. Standard keyboard skills.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team, maintaining effective working relationships and mitigating conflict.
- Good understanding of confidentiality.

**Desirable**

- Experience of work in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Holds relevant Health Care certificate or working towards this (e.g. Care Course)
- Knowledge or experience of working within a prison or secured environment setting
- Good patient assessment skills - knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals.

## Documents

- [recruitment faq's (pdf, 325.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3014)
- [spectrum's benefits (jpg, 188.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2774)
- [health and social care worker apprentice job description (pdf, 238.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10685509)

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