Primary Care Healthcare Assistant

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; Remoto; GBP 26.000 - 27.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join the Primary Healthcare team at HMP Peterborough on a fixed-term 10-month contract. You will deliver a comprehensive range of needs-based health care services to residents, providing 24-hour care across day and weekend shifts.

The role requires residency vetting and flexibility. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, promoting trauma-informed wellbeing and safeguarding patients while supporting

Competenze

• Completed Care certificate
• Able to perform clinical assessments - wound care, phlebotomy, ECG
• Evidence of teamwork
• Evidence of triage skills
• Evidence of autonomous working
• Aware of medication management
• Experience within the existing role

Mansioni

• 24-hour healthcare delivery to inmates at HMP Peterborough
• Shift flexibility including days and weekends
• Collaboration with nursing, chronic disease, sexual health and GP teams
• Support learning and development opportunities for staff

Descrizione del lavoro

Main area Secured Services Grade Band 3 Contract Fixed term: 10 months (Full Time) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Rota basis covering 24 hours a day,7 days a week service including weekends.) Job ref 270-TH252-HMPPET-A

Site HMP Peterborough Town Peterborough Salary £25,760 - £27,476 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 27/10/2026 08:00

Job overview

NHFT are recruiting for a Healthcare Assistant to work a fixed term contract of 10 months within Primary Healthcare at HMP Peterborough to deliver a comprehensive range of needs-based health care services to patients. This involves providing 24-hour care by working a range of shifts including days and weekends to suit the needs of the service.

Please note this post is subject to security vetting. To be considered for this post you will need to have continuously resided in the UK without any breaks for a minimum of 3 years prior to this application and be able to evidence your years of residency. Please note without sufficient evidence your application may not progress.

Main duties of the job

The Primary Healthcare provision at HMP Peterborough is provided by Northamptonshire Foundation Trust (NHFT). The team consists of nurses, HCA's, Chronic disease nurses, Sexual health and General Practitioners. The team works closely with the Substance misuse team, Mental Health team and wider healthcare Services to provide a Trauma Informed Well Being Service for residents.

We aim to deliver quality of life services and support people to change their lives for the better. Opportunities for learning and developing work-ready skills are on offer for all who come in-to custody, but our commitment to reducing reoffending in local communities does not end at the prison gate. We support people released from custody through innovative partnerships in all areas working with people to maintain and lead law-abiding lives.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of earning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.

We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Healthcare assistance experience

• Completed Care certificate
• Able to clinical assessments- completed clinical observations, wound care, phlebotomy, ECG
• Evidence of team working
• Evidence of triage skills
• Evidence of automous working
• Aware of medication management
• Experience within the existing role

Meet the criteria of questions

• Achieved experience
• Demonstrate the leadership behaviours
• Evidence of training in phlebotomy
• Prison Experience

Security Vetting

• The application includes evidence of the required years of UK residency to meet prison vetting standards

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary.

Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.