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Sport and Fitness Technical Instructor | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,081 - £33,665 pa inc pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 September 2024 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA2 7AF |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6564409/277-6564409-FOR |
Summary
OVERVIEW OF POST
The Bracton Centre 6 ward medium secure unit and Memorial site has 2 low secure units.
The post holder will work under the supervision of the Band 6 Trust Sport and Fitness Lead to deliver a sport & fitness activity, under the Occupational Therapy department.
This entails planning and implementing an evidence-based exercise programme, tailored to the clinical conditions of the service user/s needs, as well as being a member of the wider Occupational Therapy team, supporting the Seven Day Therapies Programme.
The Sport & Fitness Technical Instructor will work with both individuals and groups contributing directly to the Sport & Fitness Programme and the wider Occupational Therapy Seven Day Therapies Programme.
The post holder will also offer a range of sporting activities as well as support access to community sport provisions to promote the social prescribing model.
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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
· To manage own clinical caseload
· To work autonomously under the supervision of Trust Sport & Fitness Lead
· To apply evidence-based methods, experience and skill set to assist in providing sport, exercise and physical activities for individuals/groups of serviceusers
· To co-lead lead on the development of service userprojects e.g. Uplift programme
· Communicate with serviceusers/carers, MDT and wider Occupational Therapy team
· Provide feedback on caseload and therapeutic activities at monthly supervision
· Have an awareness of local sport, exercise and physical activity providers that will promote social inclusion and skills development for service users
· To undertake additional delegated responsibilities as directed by Occupational Therapy Lead
This advert closes on Friday 30 Aug 2024
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