Healthcare Assistant - Rampton Hospital

Main area Forensic Services Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

Employer Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Rampton Hospital Town Retford Salary £24,937 - £26,598 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 20/02/2026 23:59

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Salary: £24,937 - £26,598 per annum + an additional £7000 High Secure Allowance

Are you looking for a rewarding and meaningful role where you can make a difference every day?

We are looking for candidates who are compassionate, respectful, professional, and reliable. This means demonstrating a non-judgemental and caring attitude but also the ability to uphold both personal and workplace boundaries to ensure safety of self, patients, colleagues and the public.

Rampton is one of the three High Secure Hospitals Mental Health and Learning Disability Hospitals in the Country. Located near Retford, we are in a rural location, your travel to work needs to be a factored into whether this is the job for you.

As a Healthcare Assistant you will be working with the Ward Team to deliver an individual plan of care to our patients.

Previous Healthcare experience is not required, but experience and an understanding of and experience in caring for people with mental health, learning disability or autism is. If you do not have care experience, please let us know about your transferable skills and experience in your application.

You will develop therapeutic relationships with patients through engagement in meaningful activities with them and role model appropriate behaviour to support their progress along the treatment journey.

You will be assisting with daily activities that support the physical and mental health of our patients. This will include observing and talking with patients, supporting structured days, serving meals, planned therapy or activities, and engaging in meaningful activities on the ward with individual or groups of patients.

You will be working in a highly demanding environment in which, daily, you may come across complex emotionally and physically challenging situations. A degree of resilience as well as being a good team player is essential in the role.

You will be required to work 150 hours over a 4-week period. We work long days, which are 13 hours shifts. Shifts are day or night (24/7, 365 days per year). Part time work is available however shift flexibility is required in addition to working a share of weekends, nights and bank holidays. Flexibility is offered through roster requests. Rosters are set 12 weeks in advance to support planning.

Due to anticipated high interest, this advert may close early. We strongly encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.

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HC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

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