Healthcare Assistant - HMP Chelmsford

HCRG Care Group; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health provider is seeking a Healthcare Assistant at HMP Chelmsford. In this rewarding role, you will provide essential patient care under qualified supervision, prepare clinics, and ensure patient support. The position requires flexibility for shifts, including nights and weekends. The organization offers a supportive environment with access to various benefits and a commitment to your ongoing training. Join our team and make a significant impact in the lives of our patients.

Benefits

Salary of £25,467

Access to group pension

Free refreshments at base location

Membership for shopping discounts

Access to wage advances

Online and face-to-face wellbeing support

eLearning and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare environment is preferable.
• Willingness to learn and undergo training.
• Ability to work flexible shifts.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality patient care under the guidance of qualified nurses.
• Set up and prepare for clinics.
• Support patients attending clinics.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Teamwork

Education

No formal qualifications required

Job description

As a Healthcare Assistant based at HMP Chelmsford your days will be rewarding and varied, your responsibilities will include; providing high quality patient care under the guidance of qualified nurses and therapists, setting up and preparing for clinics and supporting patients attending clinics.

As part of our commitment to your lifelong learning we offer the care certificate to all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.

The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours we expect of specific job roles in health and social care services.

Main duties of the job

You will also have the opportunity to then build and develop your skills and knowledge through the Trainee Nursing Associate programme and qualify as an NMC registered Nursing Associate. Please note that, in any case, the healthcare staff will not be expected to be responsible for or involved with prisoners' restraints.

The role will include 12.5 hour shift work on a rotary pattern with flexible work days. Including night work, every other weekend with night and weekend enhancements greatly topping up the stated salary.

Shifts are between the hours of 7am and 7pm. If you were to work full time hours, you would typically work 3 days one week and 4 the other.

About our prisons service:

We operate round‑the‑clock, nurse‑led healthcare including prisoner screening on arrival and all primary care such as minor surgery, in‑patient units, and prescribing. We also coordinate a wide range of other service providers, such as GP practices, to provide seamless care.

The safety of our team and the people we look after, particularly the most vulnerable, is our priority and we work closely with prison management. We also maximise the amount of wing‑based care given, which not only helps us to reduce risk posed by moving prisoners, but also helps improve waiting times and reduce the number of missed appointments.

Our motivated teams are driven by our belief that if you are a prisoner, you should receive same level of healthcare that you would in the community.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we will need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a HCA, you'll be part of our valued team based at HMP Chelmsford Prison. You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £25, 467 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Person Specification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.