Compassionate Healthcare Assistant: Recovery & Outreach

NHS Jobs; Kentucky; On-site; USD 23,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Cumbria is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to support high-quality care for service users. You will work within a multidisciplinary clinical team, delivering health interventions and practical support across recovery pathways.

Responsibilities include health assessments, harm reduction, outreach, and maintaining accurate records while upholding infection control standards and confidentiality.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent) is required.
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills are expected.
• Experience in a health, care or support environment is desirable.
• Understanding of confidentiality, safeguarding and professional boundaries.
• Awareness of infection prevention and control practices.

Responsibilities

• Support clinicians with healthcare assessments and interventions.
• Carry out delegated clinical procedures after training and assessment.
• Assist service users with physical health needs and wellbeing.
• Provide harm reduction advice, including overdose prevention.
• Support alcohol assessments and community detox programmes.
• Record health monitoring outcomes accurately.
• Maintain confidential, timely clinical records.
• Keep clinical environments safe, clean and infection-control compliant.
• Provide information and signpost to health and community services.
• Participate in audits and service improvement activities.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Literacy and numeracy

IT skills

Experience in health/care

Confidentiality & safeguarding

Infection prevention and control

Independent and team work

Non-judgemental attitude

Awareness of substance misuse and/or-

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care

Job description

NHS Jobs in Cumbria is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to support high-quality care for service users. You will work within a multidisciplinary clinical team, delivering health interventions and practical support across recovery pathways.

Responsibilities include health assessments, harm reduction, outreach, and maintaining accurate records while upholding infection control standards and confidentiality.