Healthcare Assistant - Thames House

Healthcare Assistant – Forensic Services - Oxford Band 3

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

We are seeking highly motivated, compassionate, and resilient healthcare professionals who have a background in mental health or a genuine passion for working within a female forensic mental health setting to join our multi-disciplinary team at Thames House.

Thames House is a 26-bedded low secure unit for women, supporting individuals with a diagnosis of mental illness and/or personality disorder. Many of our service users have previous experience of the criminal justice system. The service comprises a 10-bedded High Dependency Unit and a 16-bedded Low Dependency Unit, offering structured, recovery-focused care in a safe and therapeutic environment.

You’ll work a rotating shift pattern to cover our 24/7 service. This will be a mixture of early and late day shifts with one night week in every four.

We have established very effective ways of working with the patients to help them identify and reach their goals, whilst keeping them safe and supporting them onwards to a new life in the community.

We’ll need you to have excellent communication skills with positive attitude. We share a caring, non-judgmental and inclusive attitude, committed to the delivery of safe, high-quality care.

Key responsibilities include:

Supporting service users’ recovery and rehabilitation through therapeutic and person-centred care

Maintaining high standards of care within a safe, secure, and supportive environment

Contributing to the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care and treatment for individuals with mental health needs

Demonstrating professionalism, compassion, and resilience when working with complex and challenging presentations

This role attracts an RSU
* Lead payment of £1,446 per annum, in addition to your annual salary.

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care…