Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Therapy, Acute Hospital
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent: We provide a 7 day service
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 337-NP-6442MF-E
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ealing Hospital & Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- Ealing
- Salary
- £29,460 - £31,909 per annum inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Therapy Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
If you are an experienced rehab assistant, or as an assistant therapy practitioner with relevant qualifications, experience or transferable skills in supporting acute hospital therapy team working alongside Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapist; then this is the post for you. You will have worked with patients with various medical and surgical conditions and with elderly patients in a rehabilitation capacity. You will have very good written, verbal and audio communication skills, and basic IT and administrative skills.
Successful candidates will join our dynamic team of therapists who will enable you to become embedded into existing therapy teams with access to strong clinical leadership and established peer group support and training. Based on your knowledge experience and skills you will be allocated to work as an Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy or a generic therapy assistant practitioner
Your development will be supported by joint therapy assessment with therapists, monthly one to one supervision and yearly appraisal. Based on the area you will be working in, the therapy team would have a developed in-service training programme.
We provide a 7 day service.
This post is subject to a CRB check and does not attract a work permit.
Please note this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a high standard of therapy care within the area of work, independently assessing/treating patients under therapists guidance to facilitate maximal recovery of function and safe discharge in co-ordination with therapy team and the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Ensure appropriate accurate documentation
- To support therapy team with planning and provide individual therapy assessments and treatment plans for patients within the framework agreed by the therapist to include equipment provision where indicated.
- To support the implementation of therapy interventions for individuals or therapy groups, actively involving family and carers where appropriate, and aid in the completion of referrals for patients requiring further rehab or support on discharge.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We request you kindly not to re-apply if you have done so in the past 3 months. Please note this post may close prior to the closing date on the advert.
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • NVQ 3 level or equivalent courses/ experience
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of continued professional development within therapy or related service
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Considerable experience working within therapy or related services
- • Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- • Working knowledge of commonly presenting medical, orthopaedic or neurological conditions.
- • An understanding of the role of the Therapist in general Acute and Rehabilitation setting
Desirable criteria
- • Involvement in audit
- • Experience working within NHS
- • Experience working in, and facilitating groups
Skills, Abilities and Attribut
Essential criteria
- • IT skills: EXCELL, Word, Power Point Ability to present information, written and oral, in a clear and logical manner.
- • Ability to organise and prioritise.
- • Good communication skills.
- - Evidence of team working
- •Evidence of appropriate manual handling skills e.g. to be able to demonstrate physical functional activity
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerrie Bromley
- Job title
- Therapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929797000
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