Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

NHS National Services Scotland; Buckhaven; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) to join the Intermediate Care Team, delivering rehabilitation services in a community setting. The successful candidate will support older individuals in their homes, working with a multidisciplinary team to assess and provide therapeutic care, ensuring their well-being and reducing hospital admissions.

Benefits

Flexible working policies

Family-friendly policies

Support for disabled candidates

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working in the NHS as a therapy support worker essential.
• Experience working with older people as main service users.
• Ability to hold a caseload, assess and discharge autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Deliver therapeutic treatment programmes to service users in their own homes.
• Work with the Physiotherapy Service and hold your own caseload.
• Carry out ongoing treatment programmes for a mixed caseload of older people.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Education

HNC in Health and Social Care

SCQF level 8 qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HCSW to join our Intermediate Care Team as part of the Integrated Community & Support Services (ICASS).

The Intermediate Care Service provide rehabilitation to the adult population within the locality. This will be delivered to service users in their own home or as out-patients.

The primary function of this role will be to work with the Physiotherapy Service within Intermediate Care to deliver therapeutic treatment programmes to service users in their own homes, preventing hospital admission and supporting early discharge from hospital. Therapists will provide specialist assessments to this patient group and allocate work to you. You will also be expected to hold your own caseload, assess, progress and discharge autonomously within parameters.

You will have an HNC in Health and Social Care or equivalent or SCQF level 8 e.g. Postural Stability Instructor or equivalent. Experience working in the NHS as a therapy support worker would be essential. It would be essential to have experience working with older people as they are the main group of service users referred.

Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team you will be expected to carry out ongoing treatment programmes for a mixed caseload of mainly older people.

You will have excellent organisational skills, excellent communication skills and be able to work independently as well as within the team. There may be occasions where you will be required to work in one of the other community hospital sites.

Public Holiday working is in operation.

Our service offers regular supervision, PDP and supports training opportunities. The ability to travel throughout the area is essential for this community post.

Interviews will be held face to face.

For informal enquiries, please contact Gayle White, Physiotherapy Team Lead - [e-mail].

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application. NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.