Private inpatient Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

A fantastic opportunity has opened for a dynamic and enthusiastic person to join the multi-professional team working in the Private Inpatients Team at the Royal Brompton Hospital. This individual would work alongside and be supported by a friendly therapies team. Your role would include working with private inpatients and include:

Assisting in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by senior therapists.

Carrying out clinical tasks such as supervision of daily individual physiotherapy as well as more complex joint sessions.

This post would suit someone who is thinking of a return to practice or an experienced band 4 looking for a new challenge.

This person will need to possess good organizational skills and the ability to work as a member of a busy team as well as individually. It is essential to have excellent communication skills, both with other professionals and with patients and their carers.

There will be regular supervision, training, and support from highly skilled therapists to address learning needs and personal development. The post holder will be expected to work closely with the other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Previous experience working in healthcare is essential.

 

Main duties of the job

  1. The post holder will be based on the Private Patient ward predominantly providing mobility practice and exercise sessions and more complex rehabilitation along side the cardiothoracic physiotherapy team to post operative cardiothoracic patients.
  2. The post holder will assist in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by senior therapists
  3. The post holder will carry out clinical tasks to support the therapy team, such as supervision of daily individual rehabilitation delegated by qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, as well as an excellent level of interpersonal skills.
  4. The post holder will carry out clinical assessments independently, within their Assistant Practitioner competency framework.
  5. The post holder will continue individualised rehabilitation and developmental programmes with patients and progress and review these with support from qualified therapists as appropriate.
  6. The post holder will be able to identify when a patient need to be reviewed by the physiotherapy team due to changing complexity of needs.
  7. The post holder will be aware of ongoing discharge plans and be able to work with the physiotherapy team to advise on physiotherapy needs upon discharge from hospital.
  8. The post holder will be required to work weekends regularly to support the provision of daily rehab.

Person Specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a healthcare environment
  • Therapy or Health Care Assistant experience and able to use technology and equipment to assist in patient care
  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary healthcare team
  • Basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology
  • Ability to demonstrate effective verbal and non verbal communicate skills

Desirable

  • Previous experience in assisting with rehabilitation sessions
  • Experience working with private patients
  • Previous experience of giving presentations to small groups
  • Skills and abilities
  • Essential
  • Rehabilitation skills
  • Good level of IT skills including a range of MS office skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Qualifications
  • Essential
  • A min of 5 GCSEs or equivelant including maths and English
  • Foundation Degree in Clinical Assistant Practice or Level III NVQ in Care or formal exercise training qualification or equivalent experience
  • BTEC or equivalent ‘A’ levels
  • Desirable
  • Clinical Assistant practitioner certificate/diploma

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 27 October 2025

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