Band 3 HMP Primary Care Healthcare Assistant
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Are you an exceptional healthcare assistant looking for a rewarding new challenge? Would you like the opportunity to use your skills in an environment like no other to make a real difference every day?
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be expected to work all shifts, over a 7-day period, working early and late shifts.
The post is within HMP Birmingham, which is a male prison, and you will be required to support the registered nurses delivering primary healthcare to the prison population.
Job responsibilities
The postholder will work as part of an integrated team under the supervision of the management team within Primary Care. They will be accountable for the delivery of care to the population of the prison and will rotate onto the Inpatient Ward (Ward 1), Reception, and Primary Care.
They will carry out assigned tasks involving direct care, under the direction of a Registered Nurse.
Supporting new and less experienced staff.
Maintaining an awareness of budgetary constraints and using resources effectively. Conduct the monthly stock take, ordering, and stock rotation.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
* NVQ Level 3 in Health related subject or equivalent.
* Evidence of literacy/numeracy skills (GCSE or equivalent).
* Be willing to undertake competency-based training with annual updates as minimum.
Experience
* Experience of working with adults with complex health needs.
* Willingness to work in health and care and prison environment with adults with complex care needs.
* Able to work with minimal supervision in MDT (once competencies achieved).
Skills/knowledge
* Ability to provide nursing care sensitively, taking into account the client's culture, beliefs, and wishes.
* Awareness of health and safety in the workplace.
* Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
* Competent working within a team setting and to be able to work within the community or prison setting.
* Knowledge of the needs of a multicultural, socially diverse population.
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to team working.
* Able to demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from diverse social and cultural groups.
* Able to think creatively and prioritize in a busy environment.
* Excellent interpersonal skills that promote clarity, compassion, empathy, respect, and trust.
Other job requirements
* Able to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area.
* To work within HMP Birmingham across the health care service providing 24-hour patient care.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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