Therapy Practitioner

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

The Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, part of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is recruiting a full-time Band 4 Therapy Practitioner to join the Acute team. You will work autonomously and within a friendly, experienced team to deliver acute rehabilitation and support discharge planning.

The role covers Acute adult inpatient areas with rotation through General Medicine, Cardiac, Surgical and Elderly Care.

Qualifications

• Must have good time management and be able to use own initiative.
• Evidence of working toward or holding a recognised rehabilitation qualification (NVQ3 level, Foundation degree, or equivalent).
• Experience as a Band 3 Therapy assistant and working in an acute hospital setting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide acute rehabilitation to maximise independence and facilitate discharge.
• Rotate through Acute adult inpatient teams including General Medicine, Cardiac, Surgical and Elderly Care.
• Work with Therapy colleagues and the wider MDT to deliver care; weekend working will be required.

Skills

Time management

Initiative

Communication

Education

NVQ 3/ Foundation degree

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Acute team at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital. We are looking for a full-time Band 4 Therapy Practitioner to join our established, friendly and experienced team.

The role will require a highly motivated enthusiastic individual who has the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. The successful candidate will be able to show initiative, have good communication and organisational skills, being able to prioritise a caseload in a busy acute setting.

If you have had experience in a Therapy Assistant role, preferably in an Acute setting, and are looking to further develop your career, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The role will be based in the Acute adult inpatient team and rotate through areas including the General Medicine, Cardiac, Surgical and Elderly Care. You will provide acute rehabilitation to maximise independence and facilitate discharge from the hospital setting. This will involve working closely with Therapy colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team.

Successful candidates are expected to hold a valid UK manual car drivers full licence or be able to arrange alternative means to complete community visits as required, unless medically exempt.

Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust is happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview. We cover a 7 day service so regular weekend working will be required.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

We encourage informal visit in the hospital and meet the team.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Key Stage 2 English
• Key Stage 2 Numeracy
• Evidence of having attained or of working towards a recognised qualification, (NVQ 3 level), to enable implementation of prescribed rehabilitation programmes for a range of conditions- eg Foundation degree, NVQ relevant competency framework, or equivalent

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Previous experience working as a Band 3 Therapy assistant
• Previous experience working within the acute hospital setting
• Experience of working in an enabling or caring environment

Skills and Ability

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates good time management
• Evidence of the ability to use own initiative
• Evidence of good communication skills