Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills and Abilities
Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
- Skills and Abilities
The ability to work effectively as part of a team, maintaining effective working relationships and mitigating conflict.
- Skills and Abilities
The ability to complete tasks under delegated responsibility and ability to escalate concerns to senior clinical staff as appropriate
- Skills and Abilities
Promote and support patients to manage own mental and physical needs
- Skills and Abilities
Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.
- Skills and Abilities
Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Education and Training
NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or currently studying in the final year of a degree in nursing.
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting.
- Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge of nursing standards gained through NVQ qualification or equivalent experience
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of nursing practice and clinical procedures.
- Knowledge and Experience
Understanding and application of confidentiality
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Abilities
Good patient assessment skills - knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals.
- Skills and Abilities
Extended scope of practice e.g., Phlebotomy, ECG etc
- Skills and Abilities
Experience in simple wound care management
- Skills and Abilities
Experience in monitoring and support with the management of long-term conditions
- Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge or experience of working within a prison or secured environment setting.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of work in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in responding to emergency situations
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in using SystmOne
Job overview
Main duties of the job
As you a Healthcare Support Worker your main duties will be:
- All aspects of daily care
- Wound care
- Venepuncture
- ECG's
- Supporting other staff
- Assisting in medication administration
- NHS Health Checks
- Health promotion
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on the 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.
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This advert is for Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Holme House with Spectrum Community Health CIC in Stockton-on-Tees, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Sep 2026.
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