Job Introduction
- To assist the therapy team in the provision of rehabilitation, offering a range of therapy interventions and treatments in order to facilitate clients reaching their optimum level of independence and social integration required for discharge.
- To work under the guidance of qualified Physiotherapists, providing therapy intervention as delegated.
- To be responsible for monitoring patients responses to rehabilitation and reporting patient changes/ opportunities for patient progression with qualified staff.
- To be independently responsible for time management and participate in timetabling to ensure effective use of the therapy day.
- To be responsible for a delegated clinical caseload or aspects of it (subject to competency/ experience)
- To work in close liaison with the qualified staff to assist them with both clinical and non-clinical duties including selected administrative support
- To participate in a programme of professional development including training and clinical supervision.
- To maintain up to date skill levels, competency awareness and knowledge of own scope of practice. To maintain upto date statutory and mandatory training log.
- To maintain an awareness of policies and procedures relevant to the post (including Delegation policy)
Outline of Provisional Job Schedule:
Working hours are from 8.30 – 4.30 Monday to Friday with part time hours of 22.5 hours to be agreed.
Base
Bentley ward at Farnham Hospital Hale Road, Farnham, GU9 9QL
Main Responsibility
This list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role:
Planning and organisational tasks / duties
- Manage and prioritise own patient caseload as delegated by the Therapists.
- To support therapists with patient interventions (e.g. home visits, patients requiring more than one person to treat)
- To ensure equipment and treatment areas are prepared for use by Therapists.
- To plan and undertake group therapy sessions with support from qualified therapy staff.
- To be able to work flexibly across the business unit as required by service need.
- To complete administrative tasks in a timely manner
Patient Care Responsibilities
- To provide therapeutic intervention for individual clients to maintain or improve function in personal, work, leisure, social and domestic activities, under the guidance but not direct supervision of qualified staff.
- To implement therapy interventions, adapting and progressing the rehabilitation of patients following liaison with the qualified therapists. This will include modifying treatments to take account of changes in the patient’s physical and mental state.
- To work with patients individually or in groups as directed by qualified therapists.
- To work in conjunction with patients and carers on specific goals, as directed by Therapy staff, and to deal with their concerns as they arise.
- To be aware of problems that could affect the patients progress and report back any changes to the delegating therapist.
- The provision of mobility equipment following liaison with the delegating therapist.
Responsibility for financial and other physical resources
- To ensure supplies of equipment are maintained and prepare orders when appropriate.
- To accurately record issue of any equipment ordered on behalf of qualified physiotherapists.
Responsibilities for information resources
- To ensure competence of self in the accurate uses of the organisational IT system.
- To keep accurate documentation in line with departmental procedures
Package Description
As a Band 3 Physiotherapy Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at Farnham Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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