Healthcare Assistant - Neurodiversity Unit

The post holder will work as a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant within the prison's Neurodiversity Unit, providing practical and therapeutic support to prisoners with identified or suspected neurodiverse needs. Working as part of the wider multidisciplinary healthcare team, the post holder will support the delivery of a positive, structured and neurodiversity-informed environment. The role will involve co-facilitating therapeutic and health-related groups, developing and maintaining one-page profiles for prisoners residing on the Neurodiversity Unit, and promoting effective communication and collaboration between healthcare and operational staff. The post holder will act as an important link between prisoners, healthcare professionals and prison operational colleagues, helping to ensure that reasonable adjustments, communication needs and individual support strategies are understood and consistently applied., Provide day-to-day support to prisoners on the Neurodiversity Unit under the direction and supervision of registered healthcare professionals. Promote a safe, therapeutic, neurodiversity-informed environment that supports dignity, independence, choice and person-centred care. Support prisoners to access healthcare, therapeutic activities and appropriate interventions, recognising and promptly reporting changes in presentation, behaviour, communication or wellbeing. Identify and implement appropriate reasonable adjustments to meet individual communication, sensory, cognitive and environmental needs.

The role requires a compassionate, patient and non-judgemental approach, alongside the ability to work effectively within the unique and sometimes challenging environment of a custodial setting.

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