Healthcare Assistant

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 experience and be competent at taking blood pressure, ECGs and other observations. Knowledge of wound care is also a requirement for this post.Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.Main duties of the jobAs a Healthcare Assistant 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 taking blood pressures, ECGs, other observations and wound care.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 usOxleas 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 KindWe ListenWe CareJob responsibilitiesKey Task and ResponsibilitiesResponding to the needs of patients in an honest, non-judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groupsActively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groupsDelivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professionalAssisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in alongside a registered healthcare professionalContributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planningClinicalTo work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. Typical duties include:Carry out ECGsPhlebotomyBasic wound careNEWS2Assess patients using NEWS2Blood glucose monitoringTaking patients weight and other measurementsAssisting in emergency call outs and instigating emergency procedures when appropriateBeing second checker on medication roundsOrdering and maintaining stockEnsuring treatment rooms are clean, tidy and well stockedAppropriate escalation to registered healthcare professionalsUsing appropriate templates in SystmOne to document contemporaneously and accuratelyMaintaining patient confidentiality and securityAdhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures, and guidelinesEnsuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staffDeveloping an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practiceCustodial ResponsibilitiesAssume personal responsibility for the security of issued keysUnderstand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of workComply with all security requirementsRespond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriateReport breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocolContribute to effective risk assessment and management proceduresCommunicationRoutinely communicate effectively with patients and working to overcome barriers to understanding (ie patients with physical or mental health conditions or learning disabilities)Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations as directedDevelop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police, and all other non-statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender managementUndertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, Integrated Primary Healthcare ServicesIMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:Sponsorship is not available for this post.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 documentationProof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic IDProof of address documentationNon-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-applicantsIf 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 SpecificationQualificationsNVQ Level 3 or equivalent experienceExperienceExperience of working in a primary care setting - hospital, secure units/prisons, etcCompetent at taking blood pressure, ECGs and other observationsWound care experience/knowledgeSkillsAbility to assess risk and care plans effectivelyDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr