Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Assistant - Afternoons/Evenings

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Job summary

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly team at HMP Channings Wood

As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Working hours - 2.15pm-11pm, with a 45 minute break. 7 shifts per fortnight, every other weekend, will equal 0.75 WTE (28.5 hrs per week)

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant you will assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in HMP Channings Wood with the support of a registered nurse.

You will be providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. This will include actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which will take into account physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of the individual. You will be promoting health and well-being through the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes, responding to patients needs and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health.

This role will require you to be an effective communicator and you must be able to respond to patient needs in an honest, non judgemental and open manner.

Wondering what its like to work within offender healthcare?

Working in the prison service can seems scary at first but you'll have the support you need from your team to make a difference every day.

I see the prison as an individual community where I work with a variety of people and provide urgent care, routine health screens like a GP practice and complex needs care to the patients. I have the unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to their lives. Furthermore, see them grow, change and improve their general health."Ellen, Clinical Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

Our healthcare departments operate across three prisons in the Devon cluster each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

HMP Channings Wood - Cat C - Population = 731
HMP Dartmoor - Cat C - Population = 659
HMP Exeter - Cat B (Remand) - Population = 412

Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset in addition to the above.

Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

Date posted

08 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

277-5629168-SWP

Job locations

HMP Channings Wood

Greenhill Lane, Denbury

Newton Abbot

TQ12 6DW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan
Being an effective communicator, observer and listener
To work as directed by a registered nurse.
Understanding the need for and maintaining patient confidentiality and security at all times.
Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures and guidelines.
Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff
Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.
Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan
Being an effective communicator, observer and listener
To work as directed by a registered nurse.
Understanding the need for and maintaining patient confidentiality and security at all times.
Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures and guidelines.
Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff
Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.
Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner

Person Specification

Qualifications/Experience

Essential

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
Care experience
Experience of facilitating /planning /supporting groups in a healthcare setting i.e., health improvement/ smoking cessation/ activities
Physical skills to support working in a prison setting i.e., providing patient care, carrying out tests/observations.
Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting

Desirable

NHS/Healthcare experience
Experience of working in a prison/secure setting

Person Specification

Qualifications/Experience

Essential

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
Care experience
Experience of facilitating /planning /supporting groups in a healthcare setting i.e., health improvement/ smoking cessation/ activities
Physical skills to support working in a prison setting i.e., providing patient care, carrying out tests/observations.
Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting

Desirable

NHS/Healthcare experience
Experience of working in a prison/secure setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Channings Wood

Greenhill Lane, Denbury

Newton Abbot

TQ12 6DW

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Channings Wood

Greenhill Lane, Denbury

Newton Abbot

TQ12 6DW

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)