Physiotherapy Assistant | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North Shields is seeking a Physiotherapy Assistant to join their Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy team. This role involves assisting qualified physiotherapists, managing a caseload of non-complex patients, and ensuring high standards of patient care. Ideal candidates should have experience in healthcare and effective communication skills. This position offers the opportunity to work flexibly across various sites, contributing to a patient-centered approach in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare or physiotherapy setting is preferred.
• Ability to assist physiotherapists with treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Assist physiotherapists in the treatment of patients.
• Manage own caseload of non-complex patients.
• Accountable to a specialist team leader.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy team within NTIMS (North Tyneside Intermediate Musculoskeletal Service). The role will be based at North Tyneside General Hospital, but may involve working at other sites both within and external to the Trust within North Tyneside.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust manages three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.

NTIMS is the musculoskeletal physiotherapy service provider in North Tyneside and is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. NTIMS is a partnership contract with Connect Health - the successful candidate will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. NTIMS clinics are based at primarily at North Tyneside General hospital but with clinics at GP practices across the North Tyneside region.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Please note: for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy), as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Responsibilities

• To be accountable to a specialist team leader and ultimately site manager
• To work predominantly within an identified client group but be prepared to work flexibly across the service.
• To assist physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
• To assist a qualified Physiotherapist in the implementation of treatment programmes for individual patients or groups of patients.
• To manage own caseload of non-complex patients, with support from qualified Physiotherapists to progress treatments appropriately.
• To be competent in issuing walking aids and off the shelf splints.
• To facilitate arrangement of appointments, transport and ordering of equipment.
• To be responsible for the overall hygiene & maintenance of the department and equipment.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025