Rotational Therapy Assistant Practitioner

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Unsocial hours payments

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Therapy Assistant to join our forward-thinking Therapies teams across the Colchester Hospital Site and community hospitals. You will rotate through specialties including Respiratory Medicine, Surgical wards, and Stroke units, while supporting qualified therapists and managing your own referrals.

The ideal candidate will have a Foundation degree/Level 5 Healthcare qualification or equivalent, excellent communication, and be able to

Qualifications

• Experience in rehabilitation, ideally NHS setting.
• Ability to work with Therapies teams and manage referrals.
• Willingness to work weekends as part of a 7-day service.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat and complete referrals for a wide variety of patients.
• Work with Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams across Colchester Hospital Site and community hospitals.
• Manage own workload and participate in team/service development.
• Support training within a competency framework.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Initiative

Organisation

NHS rehab experience

Education

Foundation degree / Level 5 Healthcare qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join one of the most forward thinking, innovative and proactive Therapies teams in the East of England!

This role will be working with the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams across the Colchester Hospital Site and our community hospitals and Harwich and Clacton.

It offers the opportunity to rotate within therapies to clinical specialties such as Respiratory Medicine, Surgical wards, Critical Care, Orthopaedics: Trauma and Elective, Medical wards, Older peoples services, stroke unit and our community hospitals., We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Therapy assistant to work with the team to assess, treat and complete referrals for a wide variety of patients.You should have experience of working in rehabilitation ideally within an NHS setting, be enthusiastic and keen to work with the Therapies team to provide an excellent service. You will need to have good communication and organisation skills, be a team worker and able to use your own initiative.

The ideal candidate would be educated to Foundation degree/ level 5 Qualification in Healthcare / Sport and Exercise Science or similar.

You will be supported by qualified therapists, working within a competency framework and will be given all necessary training for the job. You will manage your own workload and participate in team and service development.

You will be expected to work weekends, approximately 1 in 5, as part of our 7 day service.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

Benefits

• Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.
• Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
• We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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