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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:
- Adhere to G4S Infection Control Policies assuring compliance with all defined infection control standards at all times.
- Conduct hand hygiene in accordance with G4S policy, challenging those around you that do not.
- 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