Substance Misuse Specialist Healthcare Assistant (Mat cover)

Dellbrugge; Devizes; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

Dellbrugge offers an opportunity for a Substance Misuse Specialist Healthcare Assistant on a fixed-term contract within a diverse healthcare setting. The role focuses on promoting health and well-being for patients, supporting recovery while ensuring compassionate care in a challenging environment.

Qualifications

• Competent at taking blood pressures and ECGs.
• Experience in hospital or community care.
• Knowledge of wound care required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering nursing care within the Substance Misuse Team.
• Support medication rounds and monitor withdrawal observations.
• Engage with patients to provide holistic, needs-led care.

Skills

Communication

Patient Care

Holistic Care

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience

Job description

Substance Misuse Specialist Healthcare Assistant (Mat cover)

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Job Summary

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.

Job Summary

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.

Our healthcare team have 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 patient's 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 to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Applicants are required to have hospital/primary care or community care experience and be competent at taking blood pressure, ECGs and other observations. Knowledge of wound care is also a requirement for this post.

12 month FTC - 22.5 hours per week - 0.6 wte

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant working within the Substance Misuse Team you will assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in prison with the support of a registered nurse.

You will be providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. This will include withdrawal observations, ECG's and wound care as well as supporting medication rounds.

You will be able to demonstrate good communication skills and be able to confidently liaise with other services to effectively support the patient throughout their time in prison setting.

You will be actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which will consider the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of the individual.

You will be promoting health and well-being through the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes, responding to patients needs and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health.

About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

Details

Date posted

16 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year pro-rata p.a.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

277-7267584-ERLES

Job locations

HMP Erlestoke

Erlestoke

Devizes

SN10 5TU

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan

To work as directed by a registered nurse.

Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non-judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.

Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.

Responding to the needs of people sensitively with regard for age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and disability, especially regarding patient privacy and dignity.

Understanding the need for promoting health & well-being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered nurse.

Understand the complex needs of those patients with a substance misuse history,

and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and provide psychosocial support.

Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.

Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff.

Understanding the need for and always maintaining patient confidentiality and security.

Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Always behaving in a professionally acceptable manner.

Demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.

Demonstrates a knowledge of the term professional boundaries and how to apply this to working with patients, offenders, and others.

Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

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 photographicID

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 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 resided in 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).

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan

To work as directed by a registered nurse.

Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non-judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.

Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.

Responding to the needs of people sensitively with regard for age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and disability, especially regarding patient privacy and dignity.

Understanding the need for promoting health & well-being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered nurse.

Understand the complex needs of those patients with a substance misuse history,

and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and provide psychosocial support.

Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.

Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff.

Understanding the need for and always maintaining patient confidentiality and security.

Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Always behaving in a professionally acceptable manner.

Demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.

Demonstrates a knowledge of the term professional boundaries and how to apply this to working with patients, offenders, and others.

Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.

Address History:

5 years 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 resided in 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).

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Experience within a hospital/primary care setting
• Experience of taking blood pressures, ECGs and other observations
• Keen interest of experience of working within a substance misuse service
  
  

Essential

Skills /Abilities /Knowledge

• Ability to assess risk and care plan effectively, whilst understanding the needs and rights of people.
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• Ability to assess risk and care plan effectively, whilst understanding the needs and rights of people.
  
  

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Erlestoke

Erlestoke

Devizes

SN10 5TU

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Erlestoke

Erlestoke

Devizes

SN10 5TU

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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• Seniority level

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