Healthcare Assistant | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Shaftesbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Shaftesbury is seeking a skilled healthcare assistant to join its dedicated team. The role involves providing holistic care and support to patients, assisting with medical tasks under a registered nurse’s supervision. Candidates should have experience in healthcare settings and competence in vital observations such as blood pressure and ECGs. This position requires compliance with security vetting due to its nature of work.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare settings.
• Ability to perform ECGs and other medical observations.
• Understanding of holistic patient care.

Responsibilities

• Engage with patients to deliver holistic care.
• Assist with physical procedures under a nurse's direction.
• Conduct basic health checks like blood pressure.

Skills

Hospital/primary care experience

Competence in taking blood pressure

Knowledge of wound care

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, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a healthcare assistant to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Respond to the needs of patients in an honest, non‑judgemental, and open manner that respects the rights of individuals and groups.
• Actively engage with patients in the provision of holistic, needs‑led care that considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.
• Deliver health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self‑help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional.
• Assist patients to attain optimal physical health and support physical procedures alongside a registered healthcare professional.
• Contribute appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
• Work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan.

Medical Responsibilities

• Take blood pressures, ECGs and other observations.
• Perform wound care.
• Provide physical care to patients in accordance with written care plans.

Qualifications

• Hospital/primary care experience.
• Competence in taking blood pressure, ECGs and other observations.
• Knowledge of wound care.

Sponsorship and Vetting

• Currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
• All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a prison setting. Vetting will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
• Provide proof of right to work documentation.
• Provide proof of ID (1 photographic ID).
• Provide proof of address documentation.
• Non‑UK passport holders must have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code.
• Five‑year address history is required.
• Applicants who are not UK passport holders and have less than five years UK address history must provide a Police Certificate in English from where they previously resided.
• Applicants who are UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months during the last three years must provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the relevant country.
• Guidance for obtaining a Police Certificate can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants. If the country is not listed, information may be obtained from the relevant Embassy or High Commission.

This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025.