Physiotherapy Assistant

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Woking; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health's Woking Hospital is seeking a Physiotherapy Assistant to support the ward physiotherapist, primarily with orthopaedic inpatients, and to run post‑operative exercise sessions in outpatients.

You will assist with safe discharges, teach patient exercises, and help with administration while benefiting from a benefits package including a free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. This is a permanent, full‑time role at 37.5 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an orthopaedic inpatient environment.
• Experience teaching patients exercises.
• Good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the ward physio to facilitate safe discharges of patients.
• Teach post operative exercises to the patients.
• Help with administration tasks.

Skills

Orthopaedics

Inpatient care

Patient education

Discharge planning

Communication

Job description

Physiotherapist Assistant Woking Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Full time | Up to £ 28,000 per annum depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

Our physiotherapy team currently have an opportunity for a Physiotherapy assistant. The role will support the senior ward physiotherapist with treating predominantly orthopaedic patients on the ward and help run classes in outpatients.

As our Physiotherapy Assistant you will:

• Support the ward physio to facilitate safe discharges of patients
• Teach post operative exercises to the patients
• Help with administration tasks

To succeed as a Physiotherapy Assistant, you will need:

• Experience working in an orthopaedic inpatient environment
• Experience teaching patients exercises
• Good communication skills
• Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as:

• free gym membership
• health assessments
• retail discounts
• pension options

Woking Hospital Our Woking Hospital is a leading private hospital in Surrey, South East England. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional standards of treatment and care in our state-of-the-art facilities and CPD programme. Our specialities include Women’s and Men’s health, Orthopaedics, and Eye Care with many more available. We are registered for 27 beds with en-suite facilities on the Ward, two Theatres with facilities including lamina flow and one Minor Operating Theatre, Pre-Assessment, Physiotherapy clinic, Onsite Pharmacy, Mammography, Xray and Ultrasound, with nine consulting rooms in Outpatients.

We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications).

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award‑winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.