Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting a Physiotherapist to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
This role is to provide physiotherapy assessments and interventions to incarcerated men. Our patients are all over eighteen and may have multiple co-morbid issues. You will need to embrace the culture of all patients receiving excellent care regardless of their circumstances. As a prison-based physiotherapist, you will provide care in the main healthcare suite.
Responsibilities:
* To assess the functional needs of patients in order to develop and implement Physiotherapy treatment and intervention.
* To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own professional activities.
* To independently manage a defined caseload of cases with evidence of a high level of problem-solving, reasoning skills, and judgement.
* To write reports and programmes reflecting specialist knowledge.
* To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.
* To ensure that patients and carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible.
* To adapt practice to meet individual patient circumstance, giving due regard to cultural differences and diversity.
* To liaise and negotiate with others, for example, Healthcare staff, occupational therapists, G.P.s, as appropriate to facilitate effective case management.
* To demonstrate skills in dealing with complex issues to generate appropriate strategies.
* To demonstrate visual, auditory, tactile, and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients/clients.
* To progress an intervention to a satisfactory closure, evaluating outcomes and engaging clients in the decision-making process, period, and review process.
* Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with senior staff.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation, Proof of ID (which must include 1 photographic ID), and Proof of address documentation. Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Oxleas is a Disability Confident employer. We offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, and we are proud of the care we provide and our people.
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