Job summary
Employer heading
Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Liverpool
NHS AFC: Band 3
Job overview
Do you want to be a part of a dynamic community here at HMP Liverpool? 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!
Working in HMP Liverpool presents unique challenges and opportunities for healthcare professionals due to the poor health of the patients who find themselves in custody.
If you’re seeking a role that allows you to utilise your interpersonal and clinical skills to prevent patients returning to this environment whilst continuing to learn in a dynamic environment, please apply today!
You will work collaboratively with Merseycare Mental Health Team, Change Grow Live (recovery staff), and HMPPS staff to ensure the best possible care is provided to the patients.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Support Worker, your role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities such as:
· Providing outstanding quality-based care and patient centred care
· Implementing care packages
· Promoting health and wellbeing
· Support Nursing and Pharmacy teams
· Undertake clinics such as Phlebotomy, ECGs, health and wellbeing and conducting NEWS scores
· Form part of the emergency response team as required.
· Provide patients with social care needs and personal care
Working for our organisation
The Health and Justice division of Spectrum Community Health plays a crucial role in positively impacting the lives of individuals within secure environments, sexual health services and short-term holding facilities.
We offer an array of opportunities to enhance your skills and broaden your experience.
We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on working here at HMP Liverpool, please see attached job description/person specification and recruitment pack.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting.
- Knowledge of nursing standards gained through NVQ qualification or equivalent experience.
- Experience of nursing practice and clinical procedures.
- Understanding and application of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge or experience of working within a prison or secured environment setting.
- Experience of work in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Experience in responding to emergency situations
- Experience in using SystmOne
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 in Health and Social care or equivalent clinical experience.
- OR NHS Care Certificate or relevant clinical experience.
- OR Student studying final year of the Registered Nursing Degree.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katherine Pickard
- Job title
- Primary Care Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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