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Job summary
A healthcare service organization is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to deliver 24-hour care at HMP Peterborough. Responsibilities include clinical assessments, wound care, and supporting residents' recovery and wellbeing. Ideal candidates should have a Care certificate and experience in team settings, with a focus on medication management. The role involves varied shifts and working collaboratively with multiple healthcare teams.
Qualifications
- Completed Care certificate.
- Evidence of team working and triage skills.
- Aware of medication management and completed medication rounds.
Responsibilities
- Provide needs-based healthcare services to residents.
- Work across various shifts including nights and weekends.
- Collaborate with healthcare teams to provide trauma-informed care.
Skills
Education
Job posted: 20 October 2025. Salary: £24,937 to £26,598 per year (pro rata). Contract: Permanent, Full-time. Location: HMP Peterborough, Saville Road, PE3 7DP.
NHFT is recruiting a Healthcare Assistant to deliver 24-hour care at HMP Peterborough within the Integrated Substance Misuse Service (ISMS). Duties include clinical assessments, wound care, phlebotomy, ECG, medication rounds, and supporting residents’ recovery and wellbeing.
- Provide comprehensive, needs‑based health care services to residents with substance misuse issues.
- Work a range of shifts including day, nights, weekends and holidays.
- Collaborate with Integrated Substance Mis‑use Nurse, recovery workers, psychosocial team, secondary mental health team and healthcare services to deliver a trauma‑informed well‑being service.
- Support resettlement and community links, maintaining recovery pathways post‑release.
Essential
- Completed Care certificate.
- Clinical assessments: complete observations, wound care, phlebotomy, ECG.
- Evidence of team working, triage skills and autonomous working.
- Aware of medication management; completed medication rounds as a second checker.
Desirable
- Substance Misuse experience.
- Awareness of Orange guidelines.
- Completed RCGP Level 1 for Alcohol dependence and Substance misuse.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) check required.
Employer: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust – HMP Peterborough, Saville Road, Peterborough PE3 7DP
Employer website: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/
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