Overview
Oxleas NHS Trust is searching for compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistants to join our acute mental health open rehabilitation inpatient unit at Barefoot Loge. You’ll play a vital role in supporting adults experiencing mental health challenges, offering them hope and stability during a difficult time.
Why you’ll love working here
- Make a Real Impact: Provide compassionate care and support to patients during a critical time in their lives.
- Supportive Team: Join a collaborative and friendly team that values your contribution and offers opportunities for growth.
- Develop Your Skills: Access training and development programs to advance your career in the NHS.
- Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package alongside the intrinsic rewards of working within the NHS.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
- To work as directed by a registered nurse.
- To provide physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.
- Maintaining confidentiality and security.
- Adhering to organisational and ward 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.
- Assist patients with activities of daily living (eating and drinking, movement, physical comfort, personal hygiene and use of toilet facilities).
- Communicate effectively with patients and the multi-disciplinary team.
- Participate in planning and liaison activities for patients.
- Inform a registered nurse as soon as possible when any change in a patient’s condition is noticed.
- Support patients in change due to admission, discharge, death or personal loss and in adapting to their new environment.
- Report any complaints or requests for information from patients to the senior nurse on duty for prompt response.
- Use resources effectively and report all risks to the senior nursing staff.
- Assist in the general running of the department by undertaking housekeeping and clerical duties as appropriate.
- Participate in appraisal and training of self to develop a personal development plan and strive to achieve set objectives, including NVQs.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate to the grade and as requested by the line manager.
- Attend staff meetings, updates and mandatory training as required.
- Take responsibility for carrying a radio and responding as required.
- Work closely with Management to ensure that the Prison Health Agenda is supported at all levels in the Practice.
- Develop and maintain effective communications with all interested parties.
Education and Qualifications
- Essential: NVQ Health and Social Care Level 3
- Desirable: Experience of working in an inpatient setting
- Experience of working directly with patients for 1 year
Skills
- Essential: Able to or willing to lead on patient engagement group activities
- Essential: Excellent communication skills
- Desirable: Experience of leading with patient activities and group work
- Desirable: Training and experience in specialist skills such as ECG, Vital Signs, Phlebotomy
Organisation information
Oxleas offers NHS healthcare services in community and secure settings. Our services include district nursing, speech and language therapy, support 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 partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 staff work in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, and community settings across the South of England, including London and Kent. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services and are committed to our values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
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