Healthcare Assistant - Shaftesbury, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Shaftesbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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This is a unique opportunity to be part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and to work at one of the largest prisons in the UK.

You will assist us to provide excellent primary care and substance misuse services for our population.

Offenders are a challenging population group to work with and they often have complex healthcare needs. Offenders often have chaotic lives in the community and a history of poor engagement with community healthcare services. With high rates of substance misuse and mental health problems, this is a real chance to make a difference.


You will join our established team of nurses across the prison and will be part of a multidisciplinary team supporting the following Primary Care services including First Night in Custody screening, secondary screening, venepuncture and ECG clinics, long term condition management, and health promotion.

This role involves being part of the team for OST (Opiate Substitute Therapy) You will be supported by our friendly team of healthcare staff in an environment where no two days are the same.

We are looking for a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Experience of working with patients within a prison environment would be an advantage, but not essential as full support and training will be provided.

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 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


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 takes into account the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.

Support as 2ndSig for those individuals on OST (opiate substitute therapy)

Actively involved in supporting pharmacy technicians in the pharmacy department

Demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.

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.


Understanding the need for and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in support of a registered nurse.

Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning
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