Bank Specialist Podiatrist - HMP HMP Verne

Bank Specialist Podiatrist - HMP Portland & HMP The Verne

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Podiatrists to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

Please note: This role will cover both HMP Portland and HMP The Verne Dorset.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

• To provide podiatry services to clients in the prison, through the application of a curative Philosophy of Care. To work within the healthcare team to provide a multi disciplinary approach to the improvement of foot pathology.
• To provide assessment and the full range of podiatry treatments to clients within the prison. This will include wound dressings, scalpel debridement of nail & soft tissue pathology & care of foot problems resulting from neglect & lack of self‑care.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner, developing & agreeing treatment plans individually with clients. Support from senior staff is provided.
• To be responsible for protection of health and wellbeing of all clients. Alert others to concerns where protection may be required for vulnerable adults. To appropriately refer clients to specialist teams within the department whenever needed and appropriately refer clients for investigation, diagnosis or treatment.
• To deal sensitively and appropriately with a client caseload with complex health needs, assisting individuals to manage their health needs effectively.
• To work within an MDT to provide a multidisciplinary approach to improvement of foot pathology.
• To always aim that each client achieves maximum independence through self‑care and effective client management.

Oxleas - About Us

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 Listen
• We Care

Key Task and Responsibilities

• To provide assessment and the full range of podiatry treatments to clients within the prison. This will include wound dressings, scalpel debridement of nail & soft…