Healthcare Assistant (Substance Misuse) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 pa |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Devizes, SN10 5TU |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6315618/277-5769671-ERLE-C |
Summary
Are you ready tounlockyour potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want toescapeyour current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time tobreakintooffender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for 2 compassionate, knowledgeable and motivatedHealthcare Assistantto join our friendly team atHMP Erlestoke
As part of oursubstance misuseteam, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
2 positions available - 1x full time and 1x part time (18.75 hrs). Please state your preference in your supporting statement.
As a Healthcare Assistant you will assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in HMP Erlestoke with the support of a registered nurse. This role will sit within our Substance Misuse team and you will be supporting patients with identified substance misuse issues.
You will be providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan. This will include actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which will take into account 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.
Wondering what its like to work within offender healthcare?
Working in the prison service can seems scary at first but you'll have the support you need from your team to make a difference every day.
I see the prison as an individual community where I work with a variety of people and provide urgent care, routine health screens like a GP practice and complex needs care to the patients. I have the unique opportunity to support someone throughout their time in prison and make a significant difference to their lives. Furthermore, see them grow, change and improve their general health." Ellen, Clinical Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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.
Our healthcare departments operate across four prisons in the BSGW cluster each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:
• HMP Ashfield – Cat C – Population = 412
• HMP Bristol – Cat B – Population = 638
• HMP Erlestoke – Cat C – Population = 494
• HMP Leyhill – Cat D (Open) – Population = 460
Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Devon and Dorset in addition to the above.
Our wider 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 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.
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
• Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan
• Being an effective communicator, observer and listener
• To work as directed by a registered nurse.
• Understanding the need for and maintaining patient confidentiality and security at all times.
• 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.
• Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner
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 photographic ID
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).
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024
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