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Details about the placement (what it offers etc):

Under supervision of a state registered physiotherapist the post holder will:

1.    Support the physiotherapy staff as required in implementing clients care plans.

2.    Undertake individual physiotherapeutic intervention and group activities in accordance with clients written care plans.

3.    Communicate with service users, carers, supervisor, physiotherapists and multidisciplinary team as appropriate.

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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.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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