Job overview

Oxleas NHS Trust is committed to the unique value that Volunteers bring to the quality of services we can offer within our Trust. You will work closely with the Cardiac Rehabilitation Team, with the purpose of engaging, listening, and supporting individuals who are currently using our services. This role in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Team is to support the running of group exercise and education programme and to assist with National Audit of Cardiac rehabilitation (NACR) Cardiac Rehabilitation data entry.

Main duties of the job

• The applicant will work alongside another member of the Cardiac rehabilitation team to run exercise and education face to face group exercise.
• The role frequently involves the setting up and moving of chairs, small exercise equipment in preparation for and after the group classes. They will be able to assist staff members when the need arises to set up the venue.
• To participate in the induction programme in the correct use of the exercise equipment (like exercise bands) in accordance with Health and Safety Guidelines at applicable sites.
• Have awareness on reporting defective equipment and incidents to the member of staff, without delay in accordance with Trust procedures and ensure equipment is maintained in accordance with Trust policy.
• They will be able to support service users in directions within the venue, toilets, and other facilities, no personal care involved.
• To be able to motivate service users to participate in exercise and education group, through effective communication skills.
  
  • To deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety due to their diagnosis of heart disease.
  • You will need to demonstrate excellent people skills including active listening, good written and verbal communication, and an ability to work under pressure.
  • You will need to be focussed to maximise outcomes in short time frames and be able to work both independently and alongside a team.

Working for our organisation

Working for our organisation

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
• We Listen
• We Care