Bank Healthcare Assistant Band 3 AfC - Kent Prisons | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join its Staff Bank, working in Kent prisons. In this role, you will provide physical care to patients and assist registered healthcare professionals in delivering high-quality nursing care. Candidates should have relevant healthcare qualifications and experience in patient care. The position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the health of diverse populations and gain valuable experience.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing physical care according to care plans.
• Ability to work collaboratively with healthcare professionals.
• Skills in ECGs and blood glucose monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Providing physical care and responding to emergencies.
• Assisting patients with health promotion activities.
• Maintaining patient confidentiality and security.

Skills

Basic wound care

Phlebotomy

Patient assessment

Communication

Education

Relevant healthcare qualifications

Job description

Thank you for taking an interest in our Healthcare Assistant. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.

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The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes’ walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.

External Bank Healthcare Assistant Applications - Kent Prisons

Thank you for your interest in joining our Staff Bank.

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

Key Task and Responsibilities

• Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non‑judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups
• Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs‑led care which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups
• Delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self‑help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional
• Assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in alongside a registered healthcare professional; contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Clinical

To work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. Typical duties include:

• Carrying out ECG’s
• Phlebotomy
• Basic wound care
• NEWS2
• Assess patients using NEWS2
• Blood glucose monitoring
• Taking patients weight and other measurements
• Assisting in emergency call outs and instigating emergency procedures when appropriate
• Being second checker on medication rounds
• Ordering and maintaining stock
• Ensuring treatment rooms are clean, tidy and well stocked
• Appropriate escalation to registered healthcare professionals
• Using appropriate templates in SystmOne to document contemporaneously and accurately
• Maintaining patient confidentiality and security
• 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

Custodial Responsibilities

• Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
• Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
• Comply with all security requirements.
• Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
• Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

Communication

• Routinely communicate effectively with patients and working to overcome barriers to understanding (ie patients with physical or mental health conditions or learning disabilities)
• Develop and maintain inter‑disciplinary and inter‑agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations as directed.
• Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police, and all other non‑statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender management.
• Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, Integrated Primary Healthcare Services.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025