Offender Healthcare Paramedic

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Borough of Swale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare team dedicated to improving lives within the prison system. As an Offender Healthcare Paramedic, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to offenders, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team. This position offers the chance to develop your clinical skills while making a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of individuals in a challenging environment. Embrace the opportunity to grow in your career while contributing to a compassionate service that prioritizes patient care and community reintegration.

Benefits

NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in offender healthcare and paramedic practice.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist paramedic interventions in a prison environment.
• Support junior colleagues and assist in leading a nurse-led service.

Skills

Paramedic skills

Mental health awareness

Team collaboration

Patient care

Education

Paramedic qualification

Nursing degree

Job description

Job Opportunity: Offender Healthcare Paramedic at HMP Swaleside

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, regardless of their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS Trust in 2022, we are expanding our recruitment and are looking to hire a compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Offender Healthcare Paramedic to join our friendly team at HMP Swaleside.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being among those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services within an integrated healthcare model to provide effective, responsive care that improves well-being and supports better outcomes.

As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) and have the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to enhance your clinical and interpersonal skills.

In this role, you will serve as an expert practitioner and source of advice to clinicians, allied health professionals, offenders, and prison staff. You will provide specialist paramedic interventions, support junior colleagues, and assist the Operational Manager in leading a nurse-led, integrated primary care service, developing a clinical model of care.

This role requires individuals who are driven, ambitious, and passionate about delivering high-quality, safe, and effective care to offenders. You should have a desire to influence and work closely with clinical and managerial staff.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health, mental health, and learning disability services. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages and collaborate with NHS, local councils, and voluntary sectors. We operate across over 125 sites in the South of England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and homes. Our services include hospital sites such as Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit for mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in the region.

Our Purpose: To improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our core values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or to arrange informal visits, please contact:

• Name: Clare Denny
• Job Title: Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]