# Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Durham

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

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-support-worker-hmp-durham/4bf07d79-6796-49e8-8568-3f6d643492ce
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-support-worker-hmp-durham/4bf07d79-6796-49e8-8568-3f6d643492ce.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Location:** HMP Durham
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-01T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17T12:31:05.135Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Durham/Spectrum_Community_Health_CIC/Prison_Nursing/Prison_Nursing-v8276656
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8276656?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

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the advertised role.

### 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

### Education and Training

**Essential**

- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or currently studying in the final year of a degree in nursing

### Knowledge and Experience

**Essential**

- Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting
- Knowledge of nursing standards gained through NVQ qualification or equivalent experience
- Experience of nursing practice and clinical procedures
- Understanding and application of confidentiality

**Desirable**

- Knowledge or experience of working within a prison or secured environment setting
- Experience of work in a multidisciplinary team setting
- Experience in responding to emergency situations
- Experience in using SystmOne

## 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)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 216.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10592642)

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