Healthcare Support Worker - Sexual Health
The closing date is 04 January 2026
Job summary
Are you compassionate, motivated, and ready to support high-quality care in a specialist clinical environment? We are looking for a dedicated Healthcare Support Worker to join our Sexual Health and Contraception Team within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
In this rewarding role, you will support our multidisciplinary team, working under the supervision of registered nurses and alongside doctors and other healthcare professionals to deliver safe, efficient, and patient-centred care.
What We're Looking For
- A compassionate and patient-focused approach.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to use your own initiative.
Excellent communication skills and a commitment to confidentiality.
If you are enthusiastic about helping people access high-quality sexual health services and want to be part of a professional, supportive team, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
What You'll Do
- Support patients attending the clinic, ensuring they are guided smoothly through the care pathway.
- Chaperone doctors and nurses during clinical procedures, including coil fittings, perform venepuncture and light microscopy for the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections.
- Process clinical specimens accurately and in line with service protocols.
- Manage asymptomatic patients, through the service, for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
- Maintain clinical rooms by ensuring materials and equipment are well stocked, organised, and compliant with infection prevention standards.
- Use your initiative to support the day-to-day running of the service and contribute to a positive patient experience.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
22 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,937 to £26,598 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
348-CSS-9974
Job locations
St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)
Milton Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO3 6AD
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)
Milton Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO3 6AD
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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