Healthcare Assistant
Practice Plus Group Holdings Limited
Healthcare Assistant
£27195
Practice Plus Group Holdings Limited, Thorp Arch, Leeds
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 6 Sep | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: b785f05efdcd47689738f4eaac80deb0
Full Job Description
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join the team at HMP Wealstun, a Category C male prison with an operational capacity of around 1000. The prison has good transport links, as well as a free onsite car park.
This is a crucial role within the healthcare team, making a real difference to patients, and delivering outstanding care. This role offers excellent developmental opportunities (including training to NVQ Level 3) and is a great environment to build on your experience within the primary care service.
Hours:
This is a full time role, 37.5 hours per week, working between Monday - Sunday 07:00 - 19:30 - usually 3 long shifts., As our new Healthcare Assistant, your responsibilities will vary. Some of your duties will include:
- Working within the primary care team, you will work with Nurses and Nursing Associates across the service
- Provide outstanding quality based care to all patients
- Deliver personalised, non judgemental care, based on patient feedback
- Contribute to, and implement care packages, assist with health promotion, wellbeing and clinics
- Support the nursing and pharmacy teams on the wings and healthcare centres
- Support the mental health and substance misuse teams as necessary
- Hold a NVQ Level 2/3 qualification in Health & Social Care, or equivalent
- Have experience in a care setting previously - ideally from a hospital or prison setting
- Any experience in primary care would be a bonus
- Have a non-judgemental and compassionate approach
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together
This position is full time , you'll receive an annual salary up to £27,195 per annum - depending on experience. - Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
- Competency framework
- Regional and national career development opportunities
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider team
- Company pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus public bank holidays
- An extensive range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
- Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
- Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
- Excellent long-term career prospects
- 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it, Award winning ED&I programme
If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.
We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.
Our new Healthcare Assistant will:
Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you're looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.
The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We're the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.
Practice Plus Group's purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:
How will we support you?
Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks, It doesn't stop there… we also offer:
Free access to Reward Gateway discount scheme
Access to private health insurance
Wide range of 'time away from work' allowances
Extensive career development and training opportunities
Training & Development
Tailored CPD training delivered via our bespoke Learning Management System.
Extensive training courses accessible via Practice Plus Group Skills Academy.
Great development and career progression opportunities.
They are a wonderful team who support each other and are always there for you. It is one of the great things about working here. The other thing is the number of courses that are made available, and the training that is open to us.