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.
As 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, ECG’s, 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.
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
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 which considers the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups
Delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional
Assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in alongside 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. Typical duties include:

- Carrying out ECG’s
- Phlebotomy
- Basic wound care
- NEWS2
- Assess patients using NEWS2
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Taking patients weight and other measurements

Assisting in emergency call outs and instigating emergency procedures when appropriate
Being second checker on medication rounds
Ordering and maintaining stock
Ensuring treatment rooms are clean, tidy and well stocked
Appropriate escalation to registered healthcare professionals
Using appropriate templates in SystmOne to document contemporaneously and accurately
Maintaining patient confidentiality and security
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
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