Substance Misuse Specialist Healthcare Assistant
| Posting date: | 29 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,625.00 to £25,674.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24625.00 - £25674.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS7 8PS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-0645 |
Summary
Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan To work as directed by a registered nurse. 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. Responding to the needs of people sensitively with regard for age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and disability, especially regarding patient privacy and dignity. Understanding the need for promoting health & well-being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered nurse. Understand the complex needs of those patients with a substance misuse history, and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and provide psychosocial support. Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice. Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning. Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff. Understanding the need for and always maintaining patient confidentiality and security. Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures, and guidelines. Always behaving in a professionally acceptable manner. Demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunities for all people. Demonstrates a knowledge of the term professional boundaries and how to apply this to working with patients, offenders, and others. Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills. 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).