Bank Healthcare Assistant - HMP Portland | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking compassionate Healthcare Assistants to join their team at HMP Portland. The role involves assisting in high-quality nursing care and engaging with patients holistically. Applicants must demonstrate good communication skills and a commitment to equal opportunities. National Security Vetting is required for this position. Apply before the closing date on 9 Oct 2025.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates commitment to equal opportunities.
• Good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Contributes to risk assessment and individualized care planning.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of high-quality nursing care.
• Engage with patients in holistic, needs-led care.
• Promote health and well-being through activities.

Skills

Communication skills

Commitment to equal opportunities

Understanding of health promotion

Job description

Overview

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.

We are expanding recruitment for several compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Healthcare Assistants to join our team at HMP Portland on bank, as part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS Trust in 2022. Our healthcare team promotes health and well-being for those in prison and uses skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated delivery model to improve wellbeing and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• As a Healthcare Assistant you will assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in HMP Portland with the support of a registered nurse.
• You will provide physical care to patients according to a written care plan and engage with patients in holistic, needs-led care that considers physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs.
• You will promote health and well-being through health promotion activities and programmes, respond to patient needs and assist patients to attain optimal physical health.
• You must be an effective communicator and able to respond to patient needs in an honest, non-judgemental and open manner.

Our values and environment

Oxleas offers NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments. Our services include district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care. Our multidisciplinary teams work in various settings including prisons and secure units, with our people valuing professional boundaries, equal opportunities and respectful, patient-centered care.

Qualifications and requirements

• Demonstrates commitment to equal opportunities for all people and to professional boundaries when working with patients, offenders and others.
• Demonstrates good verbal and non-verbal communication skills and the ability to work with patients across diverse ages, cultures, and backgrounds.
• Contributes to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
• Understanding of health promotion, supports patient self-help programmes, and assists with physical procedures in support of a registered nurse.

Important information

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a prison setting. This will be completed as part of pre-employment checks.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID (must include 1 photographic ID)
• Proof of address documentation
• For non-UK passport holders: correct right-to-work documentation and a Home Office share code
• 5 years of address history
• Police certificates in English if less than 5 years UK address history for non-UK passport holders
• Certificate of good conduct or overseas police check for UK passport holders who have lived abroad in the last 3 years

Guidance for obtaining police certificates can be sought at the UK government site; contact embassies or high commissions as needed.

This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025.