Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
This post will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including health and social services colleagues to meet the needs of clients referred to the Joint Emergency Team, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice. This post will involve assisting the physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing staff in delivering rehabilitation programme, treatment sessions, and undertaking clinical nursing activities.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Assist patients with activities of daily living, working closely with registered therapists, nurses and the wider MDT.
- Support the implementation of care plans, including therapy plans.
- Engage patients in therapeutic activities, monitoring their physical and mental state and progress.
- Undertake appropriately delegated clinical tasks once deemed competent: venepuncture, urinalyses, wound care, monitor blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, blood sugar; administer enoxaparin (not essential but may be required in the future).
- Promote independence and wellbeing for patients to regain their previous level of independence as quickly as possible.
- Work under the direct supervision of the Registered Therapists and Nurses.
- Have basic computer literacy and be able to document care delivered on RiO.
- Work independently with a designated heavy workload, regularly under pressure and to deadlines.
- Cope with occasional potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.
- Perform manual handling of patients and inanimate loads.
About the Organisation
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:
Our Values
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
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