Spinal Cord Injury Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Aquatic Therapy

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 1 week ago

Aylesbury, United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Full time
Job overview

This post is not suitable for qualified physiotherapists

Physiotherapy is an integral part of the rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury. Physiotherapy assistants are essential members of the team delivering this service, providing administrative and clinical support to the physiotherapists, along with direct involvement in patient treatment sessions.

This post involves working with patients following spinal cord injury during aquatic therapy sessions providing personal care and support in addition to providing administrative assistance within the team. 

Experience in working in a customer care setting is essential and previous employment within the NHS is desirable. 

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job comprise:

Assisting qualified physiotherapy staff, enabling them to implement patient treatment programmes Supporting the qualified physiotherapy staff in non-clinical tasks within the Aquatic Therapy environment, and occasionally in clinical treatment situations. Documenting and feeding back to qualified physiotherapists following all contact with patients Providing the necessary personal care to spinal cord injury patients to enable them to participate in Aquatic Therapy

Opportunities for training and development for this role are available through in service training, appraisal and mandatory training.

Working for our organisation

A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.


What do we stand for?
• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

essential

Essential criteria

Good level of education to GCSE standard. (at least 3 subjects) Level 4 GCSE or equivalent in English. Evidence of being a team player Completion of questions in person specification Experience of working with people with a disability and providing personal care 6 months experience within a customer care (face to face) environment. Evidence of ability to undertake manual handling tasks. Evidence of physical ability and endurance to work in the physical environment of the clinical area required by this pos Evidence applicant is confident and comfortable working in a pool environment. Evidence applicant is confident and comfortable in delivering personal care Demonstrates insight into the importance of maintaining a safe working environment Able to demonstrate competence in written English

Desirable criteria

Previous work as a Physiotherapy Assistant or allied profession within the NHS Previous work in health care environment.

essential

Essential criteria

Answering questions that are listed in the person specification

Education, Qualification and Training

Essential criteria

Able to demonstrate competence in spoken English

PPE requirements:  Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful  at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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