Job summary
Details about the placement (what it offers etc):
Under supervision of a state registered physiotherapist the post holder will:

• Support the physiotherapy staff as required in implementing clients care plans.
• Undertake individual physiotherapeutic intervention and group activities in accordance with clients written care plans.
• Communicate with service users, carers, supervisor, physiotherapists and multidisciplinary team as appropriate.

Main duties of the job
Key Task and Responsibilities:
Responsible for helping those with physical problems to follow exercise and treatment programmes set out by the physiotherapist
Duties:

• Assisting in the rehabilitation of clients who are suffering from reduced mobility.
• Instructing, motivating, and assisting clients to improve their health and mobility.
• Helping to schedule patient appointments.
• Working with patients from orthopaedic, neurologic, trauma, medical, surgical, and other diagnostic groups.
• Setting up therapeutic equipment.
• Preparing clients for therapy.
• Demonstrating exercises to patients.
• Demonstrating mobility aids and exercises.
• Encouraging patients to complete their treatment.
• Maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.
• Assisting in the assessment, treatment, program planning and implementation of care plans.
• Administering non-complex therapeutic exercises.
• Observing a client's progress and response to treatment.

About us
Working for our 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:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities
Details about the placement (what it offers etc):
Under supervision of a state registered physiotherapist the post holder will:

• Support the physiotherapy staff as required in implementing clients care plans.
• Undertake individual physiotherapeutic intervention and group activities in accordance with clients written care plans.
• Communicate with service users, carers, supervisor, physiotherapists and multidisciplinary team as appropriate.

Person Specification
communication
Essential

• Excellant Communication Skills Required

Experience
Essential

• Experience working with people with mobility Issues.

Care
Essential

• Applicant must have a kind and caring nature

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).