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Assistant Practitioner

Job Reference 5391

The job has expired.

Number of Positions:
5
Contract Type:
Full Time
Salary:
£19409 - £22683
Location:
Stockton on Tees
Closing Date:
15/11/2018
Job Category:
Healthcare
Region / Division:
UK & Ireland
Business Unit:
UK Central Government Services

Main Responsibilities

Assistant Practitioners

HMP Holmes House

£19409 - £22683 per annum plus £1500 evironmental allowance

Full time - various shifts

Job Outline: To provide care for the physical and mental health needs of offenders in line with professional, contractual and company requirements. To manage a case load of patients whose main physical needs are around the management of their long term conditions.

Organisational expectations:

  • Proactively and positively contribute to the successful overall performance of G4S Justice Health.
  • Deliver excellent levels of customer service to all patients/visitors and staff.
  • Act as an advocate for the service & its contribution to the Justice Health arena through creating and maintaining effective partnerships and relationships with staff, patients and our partnerships.
  • Develop and support the service culture of collaborative, flexible cross-team working and commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes, which maintain G4S’s policies on prison health.
  • Work with sensitivity and an understanding of the issues facing those working to deliver health services within HMP Holme House.
  • Comply with Justice Health governance structure in keeping with the principles and standards set out by the organization and its partnerships.
  • Develop effective ways of working and create strong partnerships and relationships with all stakeholders to support the implementation of the services policies on Health.
  • Support the service culture of collaborative, flexible cross-team working and commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes, which support the organisation’s policies on prison health
  • If your employment is to a post that requires you to be registered with a professional body, the service will require evidence of current registration.
  • In compliance with the services practices and procedures associated with the control of infection, you are required to:
  1. Adhere to G4S Infection Control Policies assuring compliance with all defined infection control standards at all times.
  2. Conduct hand hygiene in accordance with G4S policy, challenging those around you that do not.
  3. Challenge poor practice that could lead to the transmission of infection.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

  • Trained to NVQ level 3 or equivalent
  • Be willing to undertake all training required to fulfill the role and responsibilities required of this position
  • Experience of working within a team
  • Able to demonstrate a high level of literacy and numeracy
  • Able to provide examples of diversity in practice
  • Able to work within challenging and complex situations
  • Experience of working with potentially aggressive people
  • Evidence of ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all level.
  • Experience of supporting the nurse team managing patients with long term conditions for example Asthmatic and Diabetic patients