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Health Care Assistant – HMP Bronzefield Jobs in Ashford, England, United Kingdom at The Forward Trust
Title: Health Care Assistant – HMP Bronzefield
Company: The Forward Trust
Location: Ashford, England, United Kingdom
Are you passionate about helping people and looking for a new challenge?Do you want to work for a company where you are valued and be a person who can make a difference?We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of high standards of daily treatments and supporting service users in their recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. Working as part of an integrated substance misuse team to deliver both clinical and psychosocial interventions at HMP Downview.
The post-holder will work in conjunction with the registered nurses to provide brief interventions, prescribed drug treatments, crisis interventions and all aspects of nursing care and be required to manage a case load of clients; providing them with appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, developing recovery based care plans and delivering structured 11 and group work sessions.
The service is delivered 7 days a week with flexible working on a rota basis.
Essential criteria for this role
6 months experience minimum working in a healthcare setting
Experience of working with patients/service users in front line services
Driven to provide high quality clinical assessment and treatment
Ability to work with vulnerable adults presenting complex needs
As we recognise this role is advertised as full time we would also consider part time applications.
Alongside Simply Health coverage, and a contributory pension scheme to assist employees with their general health and well-being. We offer
Training opportunities and career development
Flexible working
Employee Wellbeing Days (3 x days in addition to annual leave entitlement)
Electric Car Scheme
Crisis Loan Scheme
Acess to Blue Light Card
Simply Health packages
Season Ticket Loan Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
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Essential criteria may differ from the Job Specification attached please see the what we are looking for section on this ad to clarify what is essential.
Please note, we reserve the right to close this role early
