We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, well-motivated physiotherapy assistant to work as part of our community hospital physiotherapy team. The successful candidate will be joining a supportive team, which operates as part of a greater multi-disciplinary service. The team cares for people with a wide range of medical, surgical, and orthopaedic rehabilitation needs ensuring a varied, interesting and challenging workload.
Band 3 responsibilities include:
1. Supporting qualified therapists with patient treatments.
2. Working independently with patients practising transfers and mobility.
3. Teaching and practising exercises.
4. Devising and producing exercise plans with guidance from a physiotherapist.
5. Monitoring and maintaining stock levels.
6. IT and admin tasks.
The successful candidate will be fully supported to establish a full understanding of the role and be provided with opportunity for ongoing learning and development to improve clinical skills and knowledge.
To support physiotherapists and work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide a high quality Physiotherapy service within South Warwickshire.
To provide some administrative support to the department.
To contribute to the physiotherapy out of hours service.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Royal Leamington Spa, to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Kimberley Downes
Job title: Head of Physiotherapy
Email address: kimberley.downes@swft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01926 495321
01926 495321 ext 7750
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