# Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Holme House

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

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-support-worker-hmp-holme-house/9ceaa846-7a97-446c-906a-7f545a122274
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-support-worker-hmp-holme-house/9ceaa846-7a97-446c-906a-7f545a122274.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Location:** HMP Holme House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25T16:00:49.351Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/StocktonOnTees/Spectrum_Community_Health_CIC/Healthcare_Support_Worker/Healthcare_Support_Worker-v8254604
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8254604?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://spectrum-cic.org.uk/

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Abilities

**Essential**

- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team, maintaining effective working relationships and mitigating conflict.
- The ability to complete tasks under delegated responsibility and ability to escalate concerns to senior clinical staff as appropriate
- Promote and support patients to manage own mental and physical needs
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.
- Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office

**Desirable**

- Good patient assessment skills - knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals.
- Extended scope of practice e.g., Phlebotomy, ECG etc
- Experience in simple wound care management
- Experience in monitoring and support with the management of long-term conditions

### 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 multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Experience in responding to emergency situations
- Experience in using SystmOne

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 216.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10567527)
- [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)

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