Job overview

The post holder will work as an integral part of this team responding to the needs of the service and its stakeholders and taking a leading role in team developments and day to day running of the department in the Acute and Crisis directorate.

The post holder will be based on Holbrook Ward, Woodlands Unit, and Oaktree Lodge at Memorial Hospital, both older adult wards, as well as working with working age adults across the Acute & Crisis Directorate.

Main duties of the job

The Older People’s Mental Health directorate provides assessment and intervention to those primarily aged over 65 with a mental health diagnosis.  This can be functional and/or organic in nature.  There are 4 wards within the directorate.  Holbrook provides specialist dementia care, Oaktree Lodge provides continuing care support to those with mental health conditions and Shepherdleas and Scadbury provide acute care predominantly with functional diagnoses.  The physiotherapy staff provides a full assessment for all service users on the wards and identify appropriate intervention plans.

The post holder will work as an integral part of this team responding to the needs of the service and its stakeholders and taking a leading role in team developments and day to day running of the department.

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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care