Job overview

Senior Health Care Assistant, Band 3

Permanent - Full Time - 37/5 hours per week

Do you want a career where your kindness and care make a tangible difference?

Oxleas NHS Trust is searching for compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistants to join our acute admission wards teams. You'll play a vital role in supporting adults experiencing mental health challenges, offering them hope and stability during a difficult time. We have vacancies in all our main mental health inpatient sites at Green Parks House (Princess Royal University Hospital), Oxleas House (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) and Woodlands Unit (Queen Marys Hospital).

Why you'll love working here:
•    Make a Real Impact: Provide compassionate care and support to patients during a critical time in their lives.
•    Supportive Team: Join a collaborative and friendly team that values your contribution and offers opportunities for growth.
•    Develop Your Skills: Access excellent training and development programs to advance your career in the NHS.
•    Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package alongside the intrinsic rewards of working within the NHS.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

Acute and Crisis Directorate : Healthcare Assistant (Mental Health) at Oxleas NHS Trust - Make a Difference Every Day

• To work as directed by a registered nurse. 
• To provide care physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan 
• Understanding the need for and always maintaining confidentiality and security. 
• Adhering to all organisational and ward 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. 
• Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care