Therapy Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago


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

Two opportunities have arisen for you to join our Inpatient Therapy Rehabilitation team.

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Therapy assistants to work with the team to assess, treat and complete referrals for a wide variety of patients.

These roles will be working with the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams in our Community Hospitals, at Harwich and Clacton.

Post 1 - 22.5 hours per week (Ideally Wednesday - Friday) This is a permanent position, predominantly based at Clacton Hospital

Post 2 - 37.5 hours per week. This is a fixed term post for approx. 9 months, predominantly based at Harwich Hospital.

You should have experience of working in rehabilitation ideally within an NHS setting, be enthusiastic and keen to work with the Therapies team to provide an excellent service. You will need to have good communication and organisation skills, be a team worker and able to use your own initiative.

Ideally you will be educated to Foundation degree/ level 5 Qualification in Healthcare / Sport and Exercise Science or similar.

You will be supported by qualified therapists, working within a competency framework and will be given all necessary training for the job. You will manage your own workload and participate in team and service development.

You will be expected to work weekends, approximately 1 in 5, as part of our 7 day service.

One of the largest Trusts 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.



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