Healthcare Assistant | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Bristol

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.

About Oxleas: Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS health services across the community and secure environment settings, including district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, mental health care and more. We serve 4,300 staff in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, schools and private homes throughout the South of England, including London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich, as well as Kent, Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

• Assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in prison under the support of a registered nurse.
• Provide physical care according to a written care plan, including taking blood pressures, ECGs, observing vital signs and caring for wounds.
• Engage patients holistically, addressing physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs.
• Promote health and well‑being through health promotion activities, programmes and patient self‑help initiatives.
• Contribute to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
• Assist with medication rounds, be a second checker and assist in emergency call‑outs and procedures.
• Order and maintain stock, keep treatment rooms clean and tidy, and ensure appropriate escalation to registered healthcare professionals.

• Carry out ECGs, phlebotomy, basic wound care and monitoring using NEWS2.
• Assess patients using NEWS2 and participate in emergency interventions when required.
• Provide continuous observation and basic nursing support under the direction of a registered nurse.

• Maintain personal security of issued keys and comply with prison orders and procedures.
• Respond to any situation indicating a threat to security or safety, completing appropriate reports (incident, security, injury, etc.).
• Report breaches of order and discipline and record untoward incidents as per local protocol.
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

• Hospital or primary care experience.
• Competent at taking blood pressure, performing ECGs and other clinical observations.
• Knowledge of wound care.
• Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a prison setting.

We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

• Proof of right to work documentation.
• Proof of identity (one photographic ID).
• Proof of address documentation.
• 5 years address history.
• UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months in the last three years must provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English.
• Non‑UK passport holders requiring a police certificate must provide an English certificate from their home country.

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting as part of the pre‑employment checks.