Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner- Medicine

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Slough seeks a Band 3 Physiotherapy Assistant to join the medical team, offering patient care and physiotherapy services. The role includes managing a clinical caseload under supervision, promoting exercise adherence, and contributing to team training initiatives. Candidates should possess relevant experience within an NHS setting. Competitive development opportunities are available.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Inclusive workplace environment

Qualifications

• Experience as band 3 physiotherapy assistant within the NHS.
• Experience in an acute setting working on medical wards.
• Leading and delivering exercise programmes in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by a senior physiotherapist.
• Monitor the stock of disposable physiotherapy equipment.
• Participate in continued personal education.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Problem-solving

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

GCSE or equivalent in English and Mathematics

NVQ Level III (Desirable)

Job description

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Medical physiotherapy team at Wexham Park Hospital, who provide the physiotherapy provision Older Persons Medicine. This is an exciting role where you will be able to manage and lead on a caseload of developing close MDT working links with the ward, be able to set goals and create discharge plans with patients and their families. There is also the opportunity to support and train other assistants in Band 2 and Band 3 roles within the wider Medical Team.

As a department we have a wide range of opportunities for development through in service training , courses and opportunities to take on different representative roles for groups such as Race and Ethnic Diversity group, Health and Wellbeing and Patient Experience as some examples.

Unfortunately we are unable to sponsor visa's for this banding of post.

Please note the vacancy may close early due to high volume of applicants.

Main duties of the job

To work under indirect supervision of a physiotherapist in providing a high standard service to the medical patients.

The Post Holder Will

• Assist in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by a senior physiotherapist.
• Carry out clinical tasks (such as instruction/supervision and prescription of daily individual exercise programmes), delegated by qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, as well as an excellent level of interpersonal skills.
• Once competent, carry out basic range of movement exercises.
• Carry out clinical assessments independently such as range of movement, risk assessments, stairs assessment and discharge.
• Carry out assessments and education for patients
• Monitor stock of disposable physiotherapy equipment and liaise with the Ward clerk re ordering items.
• Contribute to the induction of new physiotherapists, physiotherapy students on the surgical wards.
• Participate in continued personal education.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To work effectively within the Trust’s Adult Medical Team.
• Within specific guidelines and following training, to be responsible for a clinical caseload working within codes of practice and professional guidelines. This includes patient documentation in both professional and medical notes.
• To perform complex aspects of assessment in the hospital
• To perform complex aspects of patient care in the hospital with direct and indirect supervision such as carrying out assessments, daily supervised patient exercise sessions and progression of exercise.
• To motivate patients to exercise and to address barriers to compliance
• To be responsible for performing given tasks and reporting any concerns to the Specialist Physiotherapist or appropriate member of the clinical team through daily feedback.
• To be aware of and adhere to Trust and local policies and procedures.
• To provide programmes (exercise prescription) of activity that have a therapeutic basis following evidenced based guidelines laid down by the Senior Physiotherapists.
• To demonstrate a physical ability to carry out physiotherapy interventions and therapeutic handling without direct supervision. There is a frequent requirement to exert moderate physical effort for several short periods during the day.
• To be responsible for the safe use of physiotherapy equipment, adhering to the Trust medical device policy. This includes competency and accuracy to use equipment by you, other healthcare professionals, carers and patients.
  
  

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GCSE or equivalent qualification in English and Mathematics.
• Specific clinical knowledge relevant to speciality
• Clinical governance
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of anatomy/physiology
• NVQ Level III
  
  

Competencies

Essential criteria

• Interpersonal skills to include concise and effective verbal and written communication
• Ability to instruct and motivate
• Organisational skills, ability to prioritise and manage day
• Logical, ability to problem solve
• IT skills
• Confidentiality
• Ability to critically appraise own performance.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Negotiation skills, able to overcome barriers to exercise.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience as band 3 physiotherapy assistant within the NHS
• Experience in an acute setting working on medical wards
• Leading and delivering exercise programmes in a hospital setting
• Working within a team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in an acute setting working with neuro patients
• Undertaking exercise prescription for people with long term conditions
• Evaluating outcomes of exercise
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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