NHS
Bank Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Forest Bank
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Job Description
- Req#: E9847-25-0160?language=en&page=358&sort=publicationDateDesc
- 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
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
- 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 .
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
- 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 .
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
Job summary
Are you a caring and compassionate Healthcare Assistant?
Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills in a community setting?
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.
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 3 and a good level of care experience, then we could have the perfect job for you!
About us
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our teamWe'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!
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 wellbeing 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 MissionHolistic interventions delivered with compassion for the stigmatised and marginalised in our communities
Our VisionQuality healthcare that makes a difference to people's lives, regardless of circumstances.
Details
Date posted
07 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£13.13 an hour plus enhancements for weekends, nights and bank holidays
Contract
Bank
Working pattern
Flexible working
Reference number
847-KS-25-VB41
Job locations
HMP Forest Bank
Manchester
M27 8FB
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding this role.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding this role.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Education and Training
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills and Abilities
Essential
Desirable
Education and Training
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills and Abilities
Essential
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Spectrum Community Health CIC
Address
HMP Forest Bank
Manchester
M27 8FB
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Spectrum Community Health CIC
Address
HMP Forest Bank
Manchester
M27 8FB
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.