Applications are now open for the 2025 Oxleas Graduate Programme. A two year programme that provides a job in a mental health or learning disability community team alongside training and professional development. This year we also have one role within our quality team, this is a non patient facing role providing experience and bespoke training in research, audit and Quality improvement.
Have you recently graduated with a 2:2 or above and always wanted to work in the NHS?
Do you have a passion for Mental Health or Learning Disabilities?
Are you aspiring to become a clinician, an OT, A Clinical Psychologist, Physiotherapist, Speech and Language Therapist or a Nurse?
If so we want to hear from you. Tell us about your career aspirations, what appeals to you about the programme and why you want to come and work at Oxleas.
*** Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. ***
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 potential by 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 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
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 superviso
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 method
Be able to present information to a high standard in written reports and verbally
Participate in social media activity where required
Documentation
To write in clinical notes in consultation with other team members according to local standards.
To ensure that up to date written and electronic records are maintained in accordance with Trust standards
To ensure that all records, letters and reports accurately reflect the situation being reported
Understand how to promote digital ways of working
Able to use PowerPoint to create high standard slide deck
Be able to produce survey questions
