Job overview

Are you a Service user or Carer of Oxleas who would like a role in the staff recruitment process?

We are seeking to find Oxleas service users and carers to participate in job selection panels for staff for all physical and mental health directorates. This includes services for children, adults and older adults in Bexley, Bromley & Greenwich.

Oxleas believes that to recruit the right staff it will benefit from having service users/carers on the interview panel.

To undertake this role you will need express an interest and undergo an informal interview process if successful you will be required to attend and complete a half day of training which will be provided by Oxleas staff.

You will also need to have the right to work in the UK and be prepared to undergo all recruitment checks including a DBS.

Service users and carers will be paid for participating on the interview panels (London Living Wage/hr), but not the training. We will also cover your travel expenses and lunch.

Main duties of the job

• Join other staff in the selection process ( interview or group discussion).
• Work as part of the interview panel to devise appropriate questions, and answers
• Participate in the shortlisting process if requested
• Follow and participate in the recruitment process
• Ask questions to candidates
• Work as a member of the interview panel to come to a joint decision about appointments

Oxleas will need to be able to book service users for interview panels promptly, therefore you will need to have access to email communication to receive and give information about your availability to be on recruitment panels.

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