Bank Health Care Assistant - Kent Prisons3

Job overview

Thank you for taking an interest in our Healthcare Assistant. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.

Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes’ walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.

This advert is to apply for a bank position to cover any of the above locations specifically. Please note the Isle of Sheppey is not easily accessed by public transport so access to a vehicle is needed.

Main duties of the job

Our Healthcare Assistants work collaboratively with our Registered Healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality nursing care to patients in prison.

As a HCA you will be providing physical care to patients according to their written care plans which will include taking observations, ECG’s and carrying out basic wound care.

Lone working is required, and you will also be involved in responding to emergency situations. You will also have the opportunity to undertake an extended role such as running patient focused health promotion activities and programmes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

• 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
• Delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered healthcare professional
• Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.

Clinical

• To work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan.
• Adhering to all organisational and prison 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

Custodial Responsibilities

• Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys
• Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
• Comply with all security requirements.
• Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
• Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

Communication

• Routinely communicate effectively with patients and working to overcome barriers to understanding (ie patients with physical or mental health conditions or learning disabilities)
• Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police, and all other non-statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender management.
• Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, Integrated Primary Healthcare Services

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.