The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours we expect of specific job roles in health and social care services. Training will also be provided in RCGP 1 Misuse of drugs and Alcohol management.

The role will include 12.5-hour shifts (11.5 paid with 1-hour unpaid break) shift work on a rotary pattern with flexible work days. Including every other weekend with weekend enhancements greatly topping up the stated salary.

Shifts are between the hours of 7am and 7.30pm, with one shift a month finishing at 8pm. If you were to work full time hours, you would typically work 3 days one week and 4 the other.

About Our Prisons Service

We operate round-the-clock, nurse-led healthcare including prisoner screening on arrival and all primary care such as minor surgery, in-patient units, prescribing and the Clinical Substance Misuse Service. We also coordinate a wide range of other service providers, such as GP practices, to provide seamless care.

The safety of our team and the people we look after, particularly the most vulnerable, is our priority and we work closely with prison management. We also maximise the amount of ‘wing-based’ care given, which not only helps us to reduce risk posed by moving prisoners, but also helps improve waiting times and reduce the number of missed appointments.

Our motivated teams are driven by our belief that if you are a prisoner, you should receive same level of healthcare that you would in the community. We know that improving prisoners’ short and long-term health reduces their likelihood of reoffending.

Main Responsibilities

Within this role, you will:

• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team participating in procedures and duties in accordance with agreed standards relevant to role
• Participate in the assessment process of care needs and undertake reviews as directed.
• Extend current practice in line with HCRG Care Group policy, including the dispensing of prescribed medication under supervision
• Undertake all aspects of medicines management related activities listed below in accordance with HCRG Care Group medicines policy where appropriate training has been given and competencies have been achieved: medicine administration and understanding of supervised and in-possession medicines, ordering of medicines, safe storage of medicines, safe transportation of medicines. Attend appropriate training and maintain competencies in relevant areas
• Work in partnership with clients ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained
• Assist in promotion of health and wellbeing of clients
• Be trained to use Naloxone and be able to train our cohort of clients, understand harm reduction and educate on safe drug / alcohol use
• Undertake clinical interventions as delegate by a senior team member
• Maintain close liaison with the senior team member who is responsible for the workload
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to HCRG Care Group procedures
• Assist with clerical and administrative duties as required
• Work in co-operation with all other professionals and agencies involved in the care the client

Our Ideal Candidate

You will have a resilient and 'can-do' attitude, be passionate about delivering a high level of care and looking for a role where no 2 days are the same. Previous care experience is not essential. There will be the opportunity to have training in all aspects of healthcare which will enable you to complete bank work across all areas of the establishment. You will be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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