DART Healthcare Support Worker – HMP Humber (Closing date: 17 June 2026)
Overview
Join Spectrum Community Health CIC to deliver frontline healthcare for patients in prison. The role is full‑time (37.5 hours per week) and centres on patient care, supporting a multidisciplinary team with substance misuse and mental health services.
Responsibilities
* Complete DART assessments (COWS, CIWA‑A, CIWA‑B) as directed by nursing staff.
* Perform urine drug screening, phlebotomy and ECG recordings.
* Assist with Buvidal injection clinics, BBV and sexual health screening.
* Maintain accurate clinical documentation in line with service policies.
* Carry out opioid toxicity checks and support opioid substitution therapy patients.
* Provide harm‑reduction advice and general wellbeing support.
* Maintain patient confidentiality, dignity and respect within the secure environment.
Person Specification
Education (Essential)
* NVQ level 3 in health and social care or equivalent.
* Or NHS Care Certificate or relevant clinical experience.
* Or final year Registered Nursing student.
Experience (Essential)
* Experience working with patients with complex health needs in a health or social care setting.
* Knowledge of nursing standards and clinical procedures.
* Understanding and application of confidentiality.
Experience (Desirable)
* Experience in a prison or secured environment setting.
* Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
* Experience responding to emergency situations.
* Experience using SystmOne.
Skills (Essential)
* Well‑developed verbal and written communication.
* Teamworking skills, managing relationships and mitigating conflict.
* Capability to carry out delegated tasks and escalating concerns appropriately.
* Promote and support patients to manage their own mental and physical needs.
Skills (Desirable)
* Patient assessment skills, recognising signs of substance‑related effects.
* Extended scope of practice such as phlebotomy or ECG.
* Simple wound‑care management.
Benefits
* Access to NHS pension.
* Additional day off.
* Referral scheme.
* Training and development opportunities.
* Flexible working.
* Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes.
* Up to 33 days annual leave.
EEO Statement
Spectrum Community Health CIC welcomes applications from all backgrounds including those with lived experience, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, neurodivergent applicants and people from BAME backgrounds.
Other Details
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 per annum (Band 3). Permanent contract, full‑time, based at HMP Humber, 3 Sands Lane, Everthorpe, HU15 2JZ.
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