October 14, 2024

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Camberley

PART TIME

Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

Physiotherapy practitioner Band 4

Physiotherapy Department – Frimley Park Hospital

27 hours per week (with potential to become full time in the future)

Vascular wards and Inpatient and Outpatient Amputation Rehabilitation Service

Responsible to: Physiotherapy team lead

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Frimley Park Hospital is the regional vascular centre serving a population of approximately 1.4million. The service supports a number of spoke hospital including Basingstoke, Royal Surrey, Wexham Park and Ashford and St Peter’s.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

As a Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner working within the Vascular and amputation rehabilitation team you will work alongside a team of experienced physiotherapists assessing and treating patients. You will work with patients who have undergone major limb amputation in both an in and outpatient setting, providing rehabilitation from acute phase up to and including prosthetic rehabilitation.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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PURPOSE OF JOB:
To work under the indirect supervision of a qualified therapist in providing a high standard therapy service to patients requiring therapy.

The post holder will:

Assist in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by a qualified therapist.
Carry out clinical tasks (such as instruction/supervision and prescription of individual exercise programmes), delegated by qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, manual therapy skills, as well as an excellent level of interpersonal skills.
To take handover and undertake discharge planning
To help manage a specified patient caseload, to include patients with complex rehabilitation goals including vascular and amputee in patients and out patients.
To provide high quality exercise sessions to patients in an in patient and out patient setting.
Participate in continued personal development
To contribute in the induction and training of new therapy staff, therapy students and other non-qualified health care staff within the therapy team
To order and monitor stock of disposable therapy equipment.
To contribute to the supervision and training of other therapy assistants