Substance Misuse Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Styal
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a caring and compassionate Healthcare Support Worker within a multi-disciplined healthcare team at HMP Styal. You will provide individualised care to patients in a prison environment, focusing on substance misuse services, reception screening, and various clinics. The role involves undertaking physical health observations, supporting patients with mental health and substance withdrawal, and working under the supervision of a qualified nurse. Flexibility for shift-based rotas, including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays, is required.
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
- Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting.
- Knowledge of nursing standards gained through 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
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team, maintaining effective working relationships and mitigating conflict.
- The ability to complete tasks under delegated responsibility and ability to escalate concerns to senior clinical staff as appropriate.
- Promote and support patients to manage own mental and physical needs
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.
- Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Good patient assessment skills - knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals
- Extended scope of practice e.g.,Phlebotomy, ECG etc.
- Experience in simple wound care management
- Interview
- 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
- Demonstration of experience of working with people with complex health needs, in a health or social care setting.
- Knowledge of nursing standards gained through qualification or equivalent experience.
- Experience of nursing practice and clinical procedures. Understanding and application of confidentiality
- 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
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team, maintaining effective working relationships and mitigating conflict.
- The ability to complete tasks under delegated responsibility and ability to escalate concerns to senior clinical staff as appropriate.
- Promote and support patients to manage own mental and physical needs
- Able to maintain contemporaneous clinical records following clinical activities.
- Keyboard skills - computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Good patient assessment skills - knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental and physical disorders and its effects on individuals
- Extended scope of practice e.g.,Phlebotomy, ECG etc.
- Experience in simple wound care management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Spectrum Community Health CIC
Substance Misuse Healthcare Support Worker - HMP Styal
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a caring and compassionate Healthcare Support Worker? Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills in a Health and Justice setting? You could be a key part of our multi-disciplined healthcare team, providing individualised care for our patients in a prison environment.
We operate a shift-based rota, which includes evenings, weekends, and bank holidays. Applicants must be able to work flexibly across these shift patterns.
We welcome applications from individuals who can meet these requirements, as well as those with experience in clinical roles and/or a good understanding of substance misuse.
Main duties of the job
Our services include Substance Misuse, reception screening, providing agreed care packages, undertaking appropriate physical health observations, clinics such as Phlebotomy, ECG, NHS health checks, sexual health, and health promotion. You will need a good level of communication skills, be a team player and provide high standards of care to patients under the supervision of a qualified nurse/practitioner. If you have NVQ level 3 and a good level of care experience, then we could have the perfect job for you.
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