Bank Physiotherapist - HMP Channings Wood/HMP Exeter | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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 have 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 multiply co-morbid issues. You will need to embrace the culture of all patients receive excellent care regardless of their circumstances.

As a prison-based physiotherapist you will provide care in the main healthcare suite. You will be required to provide a high level of service and integrate this care into the wider patient plan. This position will be based at HMP Exeter and HMP Channings Wood (Newton Abbot) and report to the Head of Healthcare at HMP Channings Wood.

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.

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.

• To perform a physiotherapist role in the prison setting
• 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

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, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• 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.

Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.