Therapy Assistant Practitioner

Ipswich and East Suffolk Community Hospitals have had an agreement to extend the core in-patient Therapy service to be available over seven days a week for a further 12 months ending 31 March 2024.

This means that we have opportunities for 12 month fixed-term contracts across Agenda for Change banding levels 4, 5 and 6. The core hours are 08:30-16:30 Monday to Friday with working one weekend in either in three or four weeks depending on the site and incudes Bank Holiday cover.

Ipswich and East Suffolk Community Hospitals include Bluebird Lodge (Ipswich), Aldeburgh Community Hospital and Felixstowe Community Hospitals working in close partnership with the Ipswich Acute Hospital and as part of the wider ESNEFT NHS Trust

There will also be support and a close working relationship with the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) managers based at Aldeburgh and Felixstowe initially.

This is also a wonderful secondment or rotational opportunity for enthusiastic Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Therapy Assistant Practitioners already employed within the organisation who are keen to explore working in the community hospital setting within a robust rehabilitation and reablement ethos and looking for promotional opportunities.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if 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 offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

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

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.