Healthcare Support Worker - Sexual Health

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Support Worker for their Sexual Health and Contraception Team. You'll support a multidisciplinary team in delivering safe and patient-centered care, assisting patients through their care pathways and maintaining clinical standards. Ideal candidates will have a healthcare qualification level 2 or above, along with good GCSEs in English and Maths. This position offers competitive pay and the opportunity to work in a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Healthcare qualification Level 2, 3 or working towards gaining equivalent level.
• Good basic education or GCSE in English and Maths.

Responsibilities

• Support patients attending the clinic, ensuring they are guided smoothly through the care pathway.
• Chaperone doctors and nurses during clinical procedures.
• Process clinical specimens accurately and in line with service protocols.
• Manage asymptomatic patients for sexually transmitted infections.
• Maintain clinical rooms ensuring compliance with infection prevention standards.
• Support the day-to-day running of the service.

Job description

Healthcare Support Worker - Sexual Health

The closing date is 21 December 2025

Are you compassionate, motivated, and ready to support high-quality care in a specialist clinical environment? We are looking for a dedicated Healthcare Support Worker to join our Sexual Health and Contraception Team within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

In this rewarding role, you will support our multidisciplinary team, working under the supervision of registered nurses and alongside doctors and other healthcare professionals to deliver safe, efficient, and patient‑centred care.

What We're Looking For

• A compassionate and patient‑focused approach.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to use your own initiative.

Excellent communication skills and a commitment to confidentiality.

If you are enthusiastic about helping people access high‑quality sexual health services and want to be part of a professional, supportive team, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

What You'll Do

• Support patients attending the clinic, ensuring they are guided smoothly through the care pathway.
• Chaperone doctors and nurses during clinical procedures, including coil fittings, perform venepuncture and light microscopy for the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections.
• Process clinical specimens accurately and in line with service protocols.
• Manage asymptomatic patients, through the service, for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
• Maintain clinical rooms by ensuring materials and equipment are well stocked, organised, and compliant with infection prevention standards.
• Use your initiative to support the day‑to‑day running of the service and contribute to a positive patient experience.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community‑based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute‑level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust’s Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• Healthcare qualification Level 2, 3 or working towards gaining equivalent level
• Good basic education or GCSE in English and Maths

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 name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year. Please note for part‑time hours the salary will be pro rata.