Physiotherapy Support Worker

**Physiotherapy Support Worker**:
**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Physiotherapy
- **Grade**
- Band 4
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (over 3 days)
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-393-B**Site**
- Newquay Hospital
- **Town**
- Newquay
- **Salary**
- £22,549 - £24,882 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

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- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

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- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

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- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative, flexible and well-motivated physiotherapy assistant to join the Newquay Rehabilitation Team based at Newquay Hospital. The role will be primarily supporting patients in their own home in the mid Cornwall area, although may also involve ward work when cover needed.

We deliver physiotherapy and occupational therapy in the mid Cornwall locality to individuals with a primary physical health condition in variety of ways:

- Community Rehabilitation Team - within the person’s home environment and intervention targeted at a wide variety of conditions, e.g long-term, neurological, orthopaedic, falls, frailty
- Intermediate Care - A more urgent service and working closely with the Home First/Early intervention team in the most appropriate environment for the individual.
- The Integrated Therapy team works closely with Specialist Therapy teams and is part of the East Cornwall Locality integrated Care Team working with Community Nursing, Social Care, Volunteer and Mental Health teams
- It will be an expectation of this post that on occasion, the person works flexibly across other areas of care.
- Being able to drive and having access to a vehicle are essential for this post
- Regular clinical supervision will be provided and continuing professional development encouraged
- We would welcome information calls or visits to the team
- Seven day working may be a requirement of this post in the future.

For further details/information visits contact:
Pru Armshaw, Therapy Team Lead,
01637 834875

**Main duties of the job**:
The purpose of the post is:

- To undertake specific skilled physiotherapy and occupational therapy support work (e.g. carrying out assessments using various treatment skills) to aid the rehabilitation of patients.
- To plan and implement interventions, using various treatment skills and to monitor progress and evaluate the outcome.
- To encourage patients and carers in an active approach to regaining and maintaining personal independence.
- To support the physiotherapists and occupational therapists by carrying out timely reviews of rehab care plans.

Key Dimensions of the post are:

- To practise autonomously, under the supervision of a qualified therapist reporting back patient progress and informing therapist of any problems
- To hold own caseload of patients delegated by the qualified memb