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Job summary

Main area
Primary Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday)
Job ref
847-RM-26-V821
Employer
Spectrum Community Health CIC
Employer type
Public (Non NHS)
Site
HMP Styal
Town
Wilmslow
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/03/2026 23:59
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Health Promotion Worker - HMP Styal

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

Working under the delegated authority of a Registered Nurse, the post holder plays a key role within the multidisciplinary healthcare team, delivering high-quality, individualised, and non-judgemental care to patients within the prison primary care setting. They support the operational delivery of Prison Healthcare services, ensuring care is accessible, safe, and responsive to patient needs.

The role involves undertaking delegated duties to engage, educate, and encourage prisoners to participate in national health screening programmes, including breast, bowel, cervical, abdominal aortic aneurysm, diabetic retinopathy, and sexual health screening. Responsibilities include recording physical health observations and supporting clinical activities such as phlebotomy, seasonal vaccination campaigns under Patient Specific Directions (PSDs), NHS Health Checks, smoking cessation, and sexual health education to promote improved physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

The post holder also supports practice nurses in cervical screening, long-term condition management, and immunisation clinics, working in line with organisational values: Working Together, Integrity, Respect, Recognition, Compassion, and Innovation, and reporting to Band 5 registered practitioners and above.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for maintaining accurate, contemporaneous patient records and care plans on the electronic patient record system in line with NHS Information Governance, Caldicott, and GDPR standards. Working collaboratively across professional boundaries, they contribute to a therapeutic environment that supports rehabilitation and recovery. Duties include supporting offender management processes, participating in audits and performance data collection, and adhering to information-sharing policies.

They monitor and observe patients, including those at risk of self-harm or suicide, escalating concerns promptly and working compassionately within a demanding environment. The role involves attending meetings, supporting clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, reporting incidents, and maintaining safety and security procedures.

Under supervision, the post holder delivers high standards of patient care, undertakes clinical observations, supports care planning, provides 1:1 interventions, and responds to patients in crisis. They promote engagement, consent, and personal responsibility for health, work flexibly across service needs, adhere to organisational policies, and ensure efficient, safe use of equipment and resources.

Working for our organisation

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
  • Annual leave on your Birthday
  • 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the advertised vacancy, please see attached job description and person specification or contact Helen Vanek. [email protected] 

Person specification

Experience and/ or Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ level 3 in Health and Social care or equivalent clinical experience
  • OR NHS Care Certificate or relevant clinical experience
  • Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting.
  • Knowledge of nursing standards gained through qualification or equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of current NHS Screening Programmes
  • Demonstration of experience (lived or practiced) in delivering health promotion education and support.
  • Understanding and application of confidentiality
  • Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting.
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • eLFH modules completed: Immunisation Q Risk NHS Health Check
  • Experience of work in a multidisciplinary team setting.
  • Good patient assessment skills -knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals.
  • Experience in monitoring and support with the management of long-term conditions
  • Experience of intramuscular delivery of vaccines working from a PSD
  • Experience of smoking cessation education and support
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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helen Vanek
Job title
Practice Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01625553188

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