Bank Health Care Assistant - Kent Prisons3

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Whitmore; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Healthcare Assistants to work with Registered healthcare professionals in delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in prison. You will follow written care plans, take observations and ECGs, and perform basic wound care.

Lone working is required, and you may engage in extended roles such as health promotion activities and programmes. The role supports Oxleas’ mission to improve lives by providing care across community, hospital, and secure settings,

Responsibilities

• Take observations and ECGs according to written care plans
• Deliver basic wound care and provide physical care to patients
• Work in lone-working situations and respond to emergencies promptly
• Support extended roles such as health promotion activities and programmes
• Collaborate with Registered Healthcare professionals to ensure high-quality nursing care in prison settings

Job description

Our Healthcare Assistants work collaboratively with our Registered Healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality nursing care to patients in prison. As a HCA you will be providing physical care to patients according to their written care plans which will include taking observations, ECG's and carrying out basic wound care. Lone working is required, and you will also be involved in responding to emergency situations. You will also have the opportunity to undertake an extended role such as running patient focused health promotion activities and programmes.

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our 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 multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. 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. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. 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. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. 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