# Health and Social Care Worker Apprentice - HMP Northumberland

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Town:** Everthorpe
- **Region:** North East and Yorkshire
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272

                    a year
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26T21:06:24.570Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/E9847-26-0212?employerCode=E9847
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8104127?FromJobsNHS=1&ShowJobAdvert=

## Job Content

### Job summary

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.

### 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)
- Welcome payment for some posts
- 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: 26 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 2
- Salary: £25,272 a year per annum
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 847-RM-26-V912
- Job locations: HMP Northumberland, Wansbeck Road, Northumberland, NE65 9XG, 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.

## Job Details

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.

## Job Description

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.

## 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.

## 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

- [Health and Social Care Worker Apprentice Job Description.pdf (PDF, 238 KB)](document:2972854)

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