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Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; Grimsby; On-site; CAD 39,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel time and expenses supported

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust invites applications for a Healthcare Health Care Support Worker to join the NLISH team. The base is Grimsby with a requirement to support clinics across North and North East Lincolnshire; travel time and expenses are supported.

The role combines reception/administration duties with clinical tasks, with training provided for venepuncture and other skills. Commitment to confidentiality and non-judgemental care is essential.

Qualifications

• Healthcare experience desirable but not essential; full training provided.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and work non-judgementally.
• Flexible to support clinics across North and North East Lincolnshire.

Responsibilities

• Sets up clinical rooms and supports practitioners during examinations.
• Provides reception and central booking support on a regular basis.
• Manages stock control, ordering sundries and stock taking duties.
• Ensures infection control policies and waste management are followed.
• Assists with microscopy skills to support in-house diagnostic services.

Skills

Venepuncture

Reception duties

Administrative tasks

Confidentiality

Job description

Clinical Health Care Support Worker GLiSH | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Company:

Company: Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Northern Lincolnshire Integrated Sexual Health (NLiSH) services have an opportunity for a healthcare support worker to join their countywide team. The base for this post is Grimsby, but there will be an expectation to support other clinics across North and North East Lincolnshire when service demands require. Travel time and expenses are supported.

The role is varied and requires candidates to be non-judgemental and adhere to strict confidentiality policy. This is a dual role which includes reception and administration duties alongside the healthcare role. Experience within healthcare including venepuncture skills is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided to the successful candidate.

HCSW:

Sets up clinical rooms, chaperones specialist practitioners within clinical examinations and handles and processes samples.

Provides support on a regular basis for reception and central booking line.

Undertakes stock control, ordering of sundries and stock taking duties.

Ensures all infection control policies are met with by ensuring cleaning duties and clinical waste duties are appropriately met.

Will be taught microscopy skills to support in house diagnostic services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

The HCSW will used evidence-based practice to help support and deliver a confidential, quality and cost-effective service in support of and under the direction of a registered professional.

They will carry out assigned tasks, appropriate to their role, experience and competence, including direct nursing care and administrative duties as delegated by the nurse in charge and as part of a wider LiSH team.

The HCSW will ensure that patients receive safe, individualised and effective care, accepting delegated responsibility appropriate to the role, experience and competency of the post holder.

This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Sep 2026