Healthcare Assistant

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join their team. The role involves delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in prison settings, focusing on physical and emotional health. Candidates should have experience in healthcare settings and be skilled in wound care, taking blood pressure, and ECGs. The position offers a chance to make a significant impact on patients' well-being.

Qualifications

• Applicants should have hospital/primary care experience.
• Must be competent in taking blood pressure, ECGs, and other observations.
• Knowledge of wound care is also required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering high-quality nursing care to patients.
• Provide physical care according to written care plans.
• Engage with patients to address their holistic needs.

Skills

Hospital/primary care experience

Competence in taking blood pressure

Knowledge of wound care

Competence in ECGs

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, regardless of their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a healthcare assistant to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals dedicated to delivering care that is efficient and deeply centered on the patient.

Our healthcare team significantly impacts 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 aimed at improving wellbeing and achieving better outcomes.

Applicants should have hospital/primary care experience and be competent in taking blood pressure, ECGs, and other observations. Knowledge of wound care is also required for this position.

Important Sponsorship Information: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will assist in delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in prison, under the supervision of a registered nurse. Your responsibilities include providing physical care according to written care plans, which involve taking blood pressures, ECGs, other observations, and wound care.

You will actively engage with patients to provide holistic, needs-led care addressing physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. You will promote health and well-being through health promotion activities and programs, responding to patient needs and helping them attain optimal physical health.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health care, learning disabilities, and mental health services. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages and collaborate closely with NHS, local councils, and voluntary sectors across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and homes.

We operate over 125 sites across the South of England, including in London boroughs such as Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and Kent. Our facilities include Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup; Memorial Hospital, Woolwich; and the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, covering prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London.

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 informal visits, contact:

Name: Jane Whitehead
Job Title: Primary Care Clinical Lead
Email: [e-mail]