Graduate Healthcare Worker

We’ve got an exciting opportunity for graduates to start their career journey on our new Graduate Scheme.

We’re looking for people who are about to graduate or have recently graduated to start their career journey with us at Oxleas in the autumn. The 2023 cohort of Graduate Healthcare Workers will work within our teams across Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich in South-East London. The roles are for a two-year initial term, after which you will be supported to secure a permanent position with Oxleas.

We’d love to hear from graduates who:

• Are passionate about supporting people to improve their health
• Have an interest in working for the NHS
• Are interested in further postgraduate study or clinical training
• Have well-developed people skills
• Can communicate and write well.

To be one of a cohort of graduates working in an Oxleas Community team within Children and Young Peoples services, Adult Community Health services, Adult Learning disability Services or Community Mental Health Services, forming a group for peer supervision and development.

Many of the roles on the graduate programme are patient facing and some are in supporting teams enabling things such as digital delivery project management and patient experience.

There will be two rounds of interviews, the first round of interviews will week commence the 2nd May 2023.

To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate the delivery of activities that ensure our services are safe, responsive, and effective. This includes contributing to a range of care tasks to patients to stay well and achieve their full potentialby facilitating group and individual activities, information gathering and analysis. Putting service users’ needs at the heart of the job, keeping people safe, contributing to effective interventions, and responding compassionately to suffering. Presenting information in writing, producing reports and analysing and presenting data.

The post-holder will work under close supervision from a registered professional for patient facing roles to provide high quality care as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. For non-patient facing roles supervision will be provided by the allocated manager who will be band 7 or above.

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, 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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

• To contribute to assessment and support the development and implementation of care plans.
• Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
• Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to support a multi-disciplinary formulation and care plan
• To ensure all service users are aware of activities which may be of benefit to them and how these can be accessed developing close links with other partners and stakeholders
• To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic and/or psycho-educational groups or clinical projects.
• Provide and facilitate social and educational group and individual activities as part of the team’s treatment programme; following set aims and objectives
• Provide and facilitate social and educational group and individual activities as part of the team’s health prevention and promotion programme; following set aims and objectives
• With the multi-disciplinary team contribute to the assessment and management of risk
• To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
• Carry out routine tasks relating to patient care as directed by the supervisor
• Involve patients, carers and significant others in all aspects of patient care where appropriate.

Communication

• To form professional relationships with service users and partners in the wider system engaged in service delivery and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
• To monitor and record patient progress, escalating concerns and reporting any perceived changes in patients wellbeing to the team
• To demonstrate effective communication skills in discussing highly sensitive and complex information appropriately with people whose understanding may be temporarily or permanently impaired.
• To provide relevant information, written and oral, for documents relating to clients progress under supervision from a registered professional.
• Be able to adjust communication style to meet the needs of young people or people who require specific communication methods
• Be able to present information to a high standard in written reports and verbally.
• Participate in social media activity where required

Professional Ethics

• To adhere to the Trust’s Code of Conduct for Non-Qualified Staff and all other relevant policies and procedures.
• To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of clients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs

Professional development

• To engage in peer supervision, actively contributing to the agenda
• To complete all statutory and mandatory training.
• Undertake additional training as part of the Graduate development programme

Clinical and Social Care Governance, quality, standards

• Participate in clinical governance and quality improvement projects as appropriate to the individual role.
• By the end of the programme produce an audit, piece of research, QI project or poster presentation for the end of programme conference