Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Liverpool

The Methodist Church in Britain; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Additional day off

Welcome payment for some posts

Enhanced weekend and night rates

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working

Employee assistance and health and bem

Up to 33 days annual leave

Job summary

Spectrum Community Health CIC is seeking a Healthcare Support Worker for the enhanced primary care unit at HMP Liverpool. The role involves medication safety checks, phlebotomy, ECGs, and supporting detox observations, with reception assessments of new arrivals.

You will assist registered nurses, deliver blood spot testing, and coordinate welfare checks and wing reviews to support patient care. A qualification in health and social care is required.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in health and social care, or equivalent experience.
• NHS Care Certificate, or relevant clinical experience.
• Final-year student on a Registered Nursing degree.

Responsibilities

• Check controlled drugs and support medication rounds, including patient access to medication hatches.
• Run primary care clinics for phlebotomy, ECGs, smoking cessation and sexual health screening.
• Support registered nurses in monitoring detox patients through observations and assessments.
• Register new arrivals at reception, take baseline observations and score clinical assessments.
• Deliver dried blood spot testing across the site for the blood-borne virus elimination programme.
• Deliver personal care and tailored social care packages within the enhanced primary care unit.
• Carry out welfare checks and wing-based reviews.

Skills

Primary care knowledge

Medication safety

Communication

Confidentiality

Teamwork

Clinical observation

Education

NVQ Level 3 in health and social care

NHS Care Certificate

Final-year nursing degree

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

This Healthcare Support Worker post sits in the enhanced primary care unit at HMP Liverpool, a Category B prison, for Spectrum Community Health CIC. Work spans medication safety checks, primary care clinics such as phlebotomy and ECGs, observations for patients in detox, and reception assessments of new arrivals. Outreach through welfare checks and wing-based reviews sets it apart within a health and justice service. Fit depends on an NVQ Level 3 in health and social care, the NHS Care Certificate or a final-year nursing degree.

What the job involves

• Check controlled drugs and support medication rounds, including patient access to medication hatches
• Run primary care clinics for phlebotomy, ECGs, smoking cessation and sexual health screening
• Support registered nurses in monitoring detox patients through observations and assessments
• Register new arrivals at reception, take baseline observations and score clinical assessments
• Deliver dried blood spot testing across the site for the blood-borne virus elimination programme
• Deliver personal care and tailored social care packages within the enhanced primary care unit
• Carry out welfare checks and wing-based reviews

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in health and social care, or equivalent experience
• NHS Care Certificate, or relevant clinical experience
• Final-year student on a Registered Nursing degree

Experience

• Experience of working with people with complex health needs in a health or social care setting
• Experience of nursing practice and clinical procedures

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of primary care, mental health and addiction support, and ability to work across these under supervision
• Knowledge of nursing standards and procedures
• Understanding and application of confidentiality
• Well-developed verbal and written communication
• Ability to work on own and as part of a team, maintaining working relationships and managing conflict
• Ability to complete delegated tasks and elevate concerns to senior clinical staff

Other

• Problem solving and use of initiative
• Adaptability to changing work priorities and demands
• Resilience and a positive attitude
• Ability to promote and support patients to manage their own mental and physical needs

Nice to have

• Experience of using or accessing mental health services, or caring for someone who has
• Knowledge or experience of working in a prison or secured environment
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience in responding to emergency situations
• Good patient assessment skills, including signs and symptoms of mental and physical disorders
• Phlebotomy procedures and ability to undertake ECGs
• Experience of wound care and management, and of supporting long-term conditions
• Experience of using SystmOne

What’s offered

• NHS Pension
• Additional day off
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Enhanced weekend and night rates
• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working
• Employee assistance and health and wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave