Assistant Therapy Practitioner - Medicine

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an inpatient rehabilitation therapist to join our team at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford) in Exeter. The role covers medical wards and involves delivering therapeutic interventions, exercise programmes, and discharge planning with families and carers.

You will work across acute and community settings to support early rehabilitation and prevent falls.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Eastern Services) as part of our inpatient rehabilitation team based at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford).

We have a substantive, full-time position available as part of a flexible rehabilitation team that will cover the Medical wards. The role will involve providing a range of therapeutic interventions, treatments and exercise programmes to patients and liaising with patients and family / carers in discharge planning and prevention of falls.

The post-holder will be expected to identify and support the physical limitations of a patients disability and their functional problems to support the therapy team to deliver early routine assessments and rehabilitation. There will be a requirement to develop strong links with the multidisciplinary teams working in the acute and community settings.

All members of the team will be expected to work across all areas and be available for the shifts across 7 days, including weekends and bank holidays.

For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most., Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).

Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.