Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 32
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
“**IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:** **Sponsorship is not available for this post.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join a diverse team delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in a prison setting. You will assist registered nurses in providing physical care, including taking observations, ECGs, and wound care, as well as engaging patients in holistic, needs-led care. The role involves promoting health and well-being through health promotion activities and contributing to risk assessment and care planning. You will work within an integrated healthcare delivery model, focusing on mental health, physical health, pharmacy, and clinical substance misuse.
Key responsibilities
- Respond to the needs of patients in an honest, non-judgemental, and open manner.
- Actively engage with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care.
- Deliver health promotion activities and programmes in support of a registered healthcare professional.
- Assist patients to attain optimal physical health and with physical procedures alongside a registered healthcare professional.
- Contribute appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
- Work as directed by a registered nurse, providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan, including carrying out ECGs, phlebotomy, basic wound care, NEWS2, and blood glucose monitoring.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
- Previous care/HCA experience
- Experience of working in a primary care setting - hospital, secure units/prisons, etc
- Competent at taking blood pressure, ECGs and other observations
- Ability to assess risk and care plans effectively
- Good communication skills (written & verbal)
Desirable criteria
- Wound care experience/knowledge
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
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.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly 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.
Applicants are required to have hospital/primary care experience and be competent at taking blood pressure, ECGs and other observations. Knowledge of wound care is also a requirement for this post.
0.85 WTE - 32 hours per week
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
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