Senior Healthcare Assistant | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bristol is seeking a Senior Healthcare Assistant to ensure the delivery of high-quality primary care. In this role, you will supervise a team and engage actively with patients to provide holistic care. Responsibilities include conducting risk assessments and promoting health within a prison environment. The ideal candidate will have a healthcare assistant certification and experience in patient care. This position requires strong communication and teamwork skills, and applicants must be willing to undergo National Security Vetting.

Benefits

Comprehensive training opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering patient-centered care.
• Ability to perform risk assessments.
• Strong communication skills with patients.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality primary care delivery.
• Supervise Healthcare Assistants and provide training.
• Engage with offenders to provide holistic care.

Skills

Patient care

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Teamwork

Training and supervision

Education

Healthcare Assistant certification

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 an experienced 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.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care that improves wellbeing and supports better outcomes in the future.

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

Responsibilities

As a Senior HCA within our primary care team you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high‑quality primary care which will include assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care. You will supervise Healthcare Assistants and provide direct line management, supervision and training to the team. You will take a lead on offender‑focused health promotion activities and programmes, set up and support clinics for patients, and drive up performance and compliance data. You will work and act as a key member of the team, supporting each patient in achievement of their planned outcomes, undertaking risk assessments for the people in your care and escalating risks to senior staff where necessary.

• To provide physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.
• To support the delivery of national screening programmes.
• To support and deliver clinics as instructed within the establishments clinic timetable.
• To participate in planning and liaison activities for patients.
• To inform a registered nurse as soon as possible when any change in a patient’s condition is noticed.
• To support patients in change due to admission, discharge, death or personal loss and in adapting to their new environment.
• To report any complaints or requests for information from patients immediately to the senior nurse on duty to enable prompt response.
• To report all risks to the senior nursing staff.
• To assist in the general running of the department by undertaking housekeeping and clerical duties as appropriate.
• To participate in appraisal and training of self to develop a personal development plan and strive to achieve the set objectives.
• To undertake any other duties commensurate to the grade and as requested by the line manager.
• To attend staff meetings, updates and attend mandatory training as required.
• To work closely with Management to ensure that the Prison Health Agenda is supported at all levels in the Practice.
• To actively engage with offenders in the provision of holistic, needs‑led care which takes into account the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.
• To demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities for all people, responding to the needs of people sensitively with regard for age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and disability, especially regarding privacy and dignity.
• To demonstrate knowledge of the term ‘professional boundaries’ and how to apply this to working with patients, offenders and others.
• To understand the need for promoting health & well‑being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including self‑help programmes) in support of a registered nurse.
• To contribute appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Values

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

Important Information

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code.
• Address history: 5 years of address history will be needed.
• Applicants that are not UK passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
• Applicants who are UK passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries where they resided or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025.