Therapy Assistant

2 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic individual to join our Prosthetic Rehab team within the Integrated Therapy Team in Colchester.

This is a small team consists of Physiotherapists and prosthetists providing prosthetic rehab for patients in North East Essex and East Suffolk The team works with adults of all ages and is based on achieving client-centred goals in a time oriented way. Therefore experience in working with older people and people with physical disabilities is essential.

It will beneficial to have experience working in the community.

Under the direction and of the qualified therapist,.

To independently manage a caseload consisting of one to one outpatient amputees using

Evidence based patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

To be able to rehabilitate patients pre and post limb fitting.

To work with other members of the MDT including Orthotists, Prosthetists, Podiatrists etc.

To use a person-centred approach in the planning, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of agreed interventions following guidelines and protocols.

To be able to lead exercise classes for this patient group.

To work in line with the BACPAR guidance as recommended by NICE.

To be able to set appropriate and realistic goals for this patient group.

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 thatTime Mattersto 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.



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