Bank Health Care Assistant - London Prisons3NHS

Job summary

Thank you for taking an interest in our Healthcare Assistant. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.

The overview of this post is to support qualified staff in all activities relating to the delivery of high-quality patient centred care. You will work and act as a key member of the team, supporting each patient in achievement of their planned outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Our Healthcare Assistants work collaboratively with our Registered Healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality nursing care to patients in prison.

As a HCA you will be providing physical care to patients according to their written care plans which will include taking observations, ECG's and carrying out basic wound care.

Lone working is required, and you will also be involved in responding to emergency situations. You will also have the opportunity to undertake an extended role such as running patient focused health promotion activities and programmes.

Job description

Key Task and Responsibilities

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

Delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional

Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Clinical

To work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan.

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

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

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

Custodial Responsibilities

Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys

Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.

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).

About us

Oxleas - 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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care