Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare Assistant
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week
- Job ref
- 847-RM-25-VB62
- Employer
- Spectrum Community Health CIC
- Employer type
- Public (Non NHS)
- Site
- HMP Buckley Hall
- Town
- Rochdale
- Salary
- £13.13 per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Buckley Hall
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
Are you a caring and compassionate Healthcare Assistant?
Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills in a community setting and join our Bank?
You could be a key part of our multi-disciplined healthcare team, providing individualised care for our patients in a prison environment. Our services include 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 2 or 3 and a good level of care experience, then we could have the perfect job for you!
Main duties of the job
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 2 or 3 and a good level of care experience, then we could have the perfect job for you!
Working for our organisation
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team!
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative staff bank.
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!
- Free car parking at some sites
- Enhanced bank rates
- Flexibility
- Free DBS checks
- Holiday pay
- Access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to hours worked)
- NHS and Blue Light discounts
- Regional work
- Onsite gym available at some sites
- Opportunity to join substantive employment.
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.
We are building on our ambition to deliver the best in health and well-being on a values-driven ethos and to maintain the highest standards of patient care and service. We are an expanding organisation, but we aim to grow without compromising on quality and social value.
Our Mission
Holistic interventions delivered with compassion for the stigmatised and marginalised in our communities.
Our Vision
Quality healthcare that makes a difference to people’s lives, regardless of circumstances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding this role.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
- Additional skills and competencies within nursing achieved through accreditation with skills for health, First Steps Programme or universally recognised Higher Care certificate .
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with complex health needs.
- Knowledge of health of primary care, mental health and addiction support and an ability to work across these areas under supervision
- Knowledge of nursing procedures and practices.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of using or accessing mental health services or caring for someone who has accessed services
- Knowledge or experience of working within a prison environment.
- Experience of work in a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Experience in Accident and Emergency settings
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of social inclusion and the Recovery Model
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team and resolve potential conflict
- The ability to use initiative and take responsibility for agreed appropriate tasks.
- The ability to work autonomously and as part of a team with the awareness of knowing when to seek support
- The ability to use Systm 1 clinical records, and Microsoft Word packages
- The ability and skill to form positive therapeutic relationships
- Support service users' own decisionmaking that builds on their strengths
Desirable criteria
- Good patient assessment skills - knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals
- phlebotomy procedures
- Ability to undertake ECG’s
- Experience in wound care and wound management
- Experience in monitoring and support with the management of long term conditions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Olivia Jackson
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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