Clinical Support Worker, Prisons
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- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Up to 36.0
- Hours / week
- 36
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing high-standard support to the nursing team and working autonomously within competencies in a prison setting. You will care for a population with complex mental, physical, psychological, and substance misuse issues, while adhering to security procedures. The Clinical Support Worker is crucial to the multidisciplinary team, aiming to improve prisoner health and wellbeing and support rehabilitation. The role requires person-centred care, good teamwork, and a keenness to develop practice.
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £29,103 – £31,409 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job reference:
257325
Salary:
Band 3 (£29,103 - £31,409)
Job closing date:
23/09/2026
Job Type:
Nursing and Midwifery
Location:
NHS Forth Valley Prisons
Employment type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
Up to 36.0
Job posted date:
10/09/2026
Employer (NHS Board):
NHS Forth Valley
Department:
Prison Healthcare
Job Advert
This is a diverse role which involves the day to day delivery of a high standard of support to the nursing team whilst also working autonomously within competencies, to a population who have a complex range of mental health, physical, psychological, substance misuse and social problems whilst maintaining a high level of awareness of and compliance with security procedures within the prison setting at HMP Glenochil.
The Clinical Support Worker is an integral role in the extensive multi disciplinary team, whose overall aim is to improve the physical, mental health and wellbeing of prisoners, to support rehabilitation and to contribute to the offender outcome strategy by supporting clinicians in their provision of high quality, effective and efficient care to individual patients at whatever their point of need is in their healthcare journey.
The ability to demonstrate high quality, person–centred care and good team working is essential. Keenness towards developing practice with appropriate and satisfac
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