Healthcare Support Worker (Term time only)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Term time hours
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This part-time Healthcare Support Worker role supports the School Aged Immunisation Service, based in Witney, Oxfordshire. The postholder will assist with organising and delivering school-based immunisation programmes, including administering Flu vaccinations and providing administrative support. The role requires flexibility, travel to schools, and experience working with children or young people. Full training will be provided for vaccination duties.
Essential criteria
- Can you provide an example of how you meet one of the following employment criteria and how this experience has provided you with the skills required for this role? Trained and worked as a vaccinator in a COVID/vaccination centre or Level 3+ on the NHS Careers Framework with substantial clinical experience working in NHS/Primary Care/Dental/Community Health Care settings or Level 3+ and recent immunisation role experience
- Question 2: Experience
- Can you describe a situationat work where you faced a challenging conversation with a Child or Parent/Carer? What skills did you use to manage the situation?What was the outcome?
- Question 3: Personal Qualities
- Describe a time when you supported a nervous or anxious patient during a medical procedure. How did you show compassion?
- Question 1: Academic/skills/professional
- Can you provide an example of how you meet one of the following employment criteria and how this experience has provided you with the skills required for this role? Trained and worked as a vaccinator in a COVID/vaccination centre or Level 3+ on the NHS Careers Framework with substantial clinical experience working in NHS/Primary Care/Dental/Community Health Care settings or Level 3+ and recent immunisation role experience
- Question 2: Experience
- Can you describe a situationat work where you faced a challenging conversation with a Child or Parent/Carer? What skills did you use to manage the situation?What was the outcome?
- Question 3: Personal Qualities
- Describe a time when you supported a nervous or anxious patient during a medical procedure. How did you show compassion?
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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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Healthcare Support Worker (Term time only)
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Looking for a varied and rewarding term-time only role?
We're recruiting a part-time Healthcare Support Worker (22.5 hours/week, term-time only) to join our School Aged Immunisation Service, based in Witney Community Hospital, working flexibly across the north and west of Oxfordshire.
We're looking for a proactive, adaptable, and motivated individual with strong administration and clinical skills. We are also looking for experience working with children or young people, ideally in schools.
Flexibility is essential, with some early starts (from 07:30), evening/weekend work, and travel across Oxfordshire as needed.
To be eligible, applicants must meet at least one of the following:
- Trained and worked as a vaccinator in a COVID/vaccination centre
- Level 3+ on the NHS Careers Framework with a minimum of 2 years clinical experience working in NHS/Primary Care/Dental or Community Health Care settings
- Level 3+ and recent immunisation role experience
Please explain in your supporting statement how you meet one or more of these criteria.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to support the School Aged Immunisation team in organising, managing and delivering the school-based immunisation programme in all schools.
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