Physiotherapy Technical

Job overview Are you looking for a role where you can help our service users enjoy a good quality of life?People diagnosed with an SMI (Serious Mental Illness) have significantly worse health outcomes and life expectancies.
Our Physiotherapy and Fitness Instructors are key to supporting our service users to move more, move well, move for fun and improve their physical health and address this inequality.The main aim of this exciting role is to focus on physical health rehabilitation, engagement, and enablement to optimize service users' ability to live independently and enjoy a good quality of life.
Main duties of the job This is a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative professional, ideally someone from a physical health rehabilitation or fitness background, who has experience or wants to work with individuals with mental health problems.
The individual must understand the impact of physical functioning on mental health rehabilitation, enablement and recovery.You will work alongside a dedicated and passionate team including physiotherapists, physical health leads, dietitians, occupational therapists, nurses, and activity coordinators to increase access to exercise, movement and physical rehab to support individuals' mental and physical health recovery, development of new skills and to find ways to move their body that they enjoy, as well as carrying out physical health interventions prescribed by the physiotherapist.You will support the ward-based multi-disciplinary team (MDT) by working closely with service users to achieve their physical health goals and facilitating opportunities to enhance their engagement in community-based physical health resources.
Effective and efficient liaison with other teams and agencies will be essential to ensure collaborative working for the benefit of service users.
Working for our organisation You will be part of the inpatient mental health physiotherapy team and the ward-based MDT.
You will have clinical supervision from a qualified physiotherapist, join in-service training and meet regularly with other physiotherapy TI's and fitness instructors from a range of mental health services.Alongside our comprehensive in-house training offer, which includes masters level modules, Oxford Health is proud to be leading the way in developing healthcare apprenticeships to support our staff with their career aspirations.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include: Excellent opportunities for career progression27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous serviceNHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailersStaff accommodationCompetitive pension schemeLease car schemeCycle to work scheme Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will be expected to support the ward-based multi-disciplinary team (MDT) by working closely with service users to achieve their physical health goals and facilitating opportunities to enhance their engagement in community-based physical health resources.
Effective and efficient liaison with other teams and agencies will be essential to ensure collaborative working for the benefit of service usersYou will also carry out physical health interventions prescribed by the physiotherapist whilst supporting the ward team with liaison with the Mental Health Physiotherapist.
Person specification Qualification Essential criteria Level 3 qualifications in fitness Desirable criteria Evidence of use of academic qualifications in a job role.
Experience/Knowledge Essential criteria Experience of work within the health, social / voluntary care or educational sectorEvidence of work within a multidisciplinary environmentAptitude to follow the Physiotherapist's directions and remain within scope of practice.Good supervisory, organisational and time management skills with ability to plan / prioritise work and to direct patients, carers, and colleagues.Ability to screen patients following set protocols for physiotherapy assessment and general fitnessAbility to assess fitness for multigym and group activityAbility to motivate in a variety of ways Desirable criteria Work experience in mental health adult and /or forensic mental health.
Skills Essential criteria To actively facilitate / partake in and use own initiative to progress physiotherapy programmes, e.g., individual / group activities.A commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.Ability to write up / maintain patient / service records All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential.
All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research.
Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site.
The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing