Overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are expanding recruitment and are looking for several compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated HCA's to join our friendly team at HMP Channings Wood on bank.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
Responsibilities
* Assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in HMP Channings Wood with the support of a registered nurse.
* Provide physical care to patients according to a written care plan, engaging in holistic, needs-led care that considers physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs.
* Promote health and well-being through health promotion activities and programmes; respond to patient needs and assist patients to attain optimal physical health.
* Act as an effective communicator, responding to patient needs in an honest, non-judgemental and open manner.
Qualifications and Skills
* Compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated healthcare assistant capable of working in a prison setting.
* Ability to communicate effectively with patients and the healthcare team.
* Understanding of holistic, needs-led care and the ability to contribute to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
About Oxleas and the Opportunity
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include 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 staff work in many settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in the region and 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 supported by our values: We’re Kind; We’re Honest; We Listen; We Care. We are committed to equal opportunities and to maintaining professional boundaries, with care for privacy and dignity and respect for diverse needs.
Understanding the need for promoting health and well-being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered nurse. Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills and contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualized care planning.
Important Information
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, including 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
* 5 years address history
* Police Certificate in English for residents with less than 5 years UK address history
* If UK passport holders have lived abroad for more than six months in the last three years, provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English
Guidance for obtaining a Police Certificate is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants. For countries not listed, contact the relevant Embassy or High Commission. Their details are on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office site.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Sep 2025
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