A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, skilled and caring individual to join us as a Band 4 Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner within The Milton Keynes Neurological Conditions Service. Based in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, the Neurological Conditions Service is a specialist multidisciplinary team, providing holistic, goal orientated rehabilitation and long term condition support for people with neurological conditions. The service aims to help people to achieve their optimal potential in their home, social and community lives and to facilitate and support individuals and their families to understand, adjust to and manage their condition.
You will need to demonstrate that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and that you are able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
You will be working primarily alongside experienced and specialist neurological Physiotherapists and you will also have the opportunity to work with Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Neurological Clinical Specialists, Speech therapists and rehabilitation assistants as part of a MDT.
Applicants musthave a full UK driving license, access to a carand able to attend a face to face interview at our base in Milton Keynes.
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Interview: w/c 24th Feb 2025
The Band 4 Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner role involves supporting the physiotherapy team in providing high quality physiotherapeutic intervention and support to our service users. You will hold a caseload of patients and undertake or support the delivery of treatment programmes, care plans, group exercise classes and rehabilitation activities as delegated to you by registered physiotherapists. You will be seeing service users within our outpatient unit, as well as in people’s homes or in the local community (including gyms); supporting participation and carrying out treatment plans to support service users to achieve agreed therapy goals and to maximise their quality of life and functional ability. You will also support the team with relevant administrative tasks where required.
We are a friendly, supportive team and you will be provided with regular supervision and opportunities for continuous professional development.
For further details or informal visits please contact Harriet Blundell, Highly Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist on 01908 724633 or harriet.blundell1@nhs.net
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust.
With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and we will support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Please see both above description of main duties of the role and the attached full Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Feb 2025
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