Inpatient Healthcare Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role is for an Inpatient Healthcare Assistant to join a team delivering patient-centred care within a prison setting. You will assist registered nurses in providing high-quality physical care, including observations, wound care, and ECGs, according to written care plans. The position involves actively engaging with patients to promote health and well-being through holistic, needs-led care and health promotion activities. You will contribute to risk assessment and individualised care planning, working within a multidisciplinary team.
Key responsibilities
- Assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in prison under the support of a registered nurse.
- Provide physical care to patients according to a written care plan, including taking blood pressures, ECG's, other observations and wound care.
- Actively engage with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care, considering physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs.
- Promote health and well-being through the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes.
- Contribute appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
- Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys and comply with prison orders and security requirements.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience
- Previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant in a clinical setting (hospital, secure, or GP practice)
- Experience and knowledge of providing care i.e., providing patient care, carrying out tests/observations
- Experience of facilitating /planning /supporting groups in a healthcare setting i.e., health improvement/smoking cessation/ activities
- Experience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
- Able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
- Ability to assess risk and care plan effectively, whilst understanding the needs and rights of people
- To take responsibility for clinical equipment/resources with which you are allocated as well as patient property and valuables
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £27,760 – £29,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Inpatient Healthcare Assistant
The closing date is 01 October 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 inpatient 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.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
Previous applicants need not apply
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