Therapy Assistant Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Looking to diversify your skills? The role of the therapy assistant is to assist the Multidisciplinary team in the delivery of care and rehabilitation to patients within the ITU setting. The clinical duties will include skills and competencies of Physio, OT, SALT and Dietetic professions.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work within the following clinical areas: Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics and Physiotherapy. Flexibilty is key as the post holder will need to be able to manage their own time and caseload.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • To work without direct supervision but under the direction of the AHP (Physio, OT, SALT, Dietetic) to perform specific tasks for patients as part of their treatment and rehabilitation programmes.
  • To provide initial assessments and follow-up treatments to patients, identify patient needs, develop treatment plans and review progress regularly. Ensure patient centred goals are agreed and documented in their goal booklet.
  • Communicate with the MDT any patient issues, progress and changes in the patient condition.
  • To organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to demand and time constraints.
  • The ability to make changes to own practice, offer suggestions for improving services and engage with research and audit
  • Be responsible for maintaining stock levels including feed and nutritional supplements.
  • Be responsible for ordering, maintaining and cleaning of equipment
  • You will be expected to work your contracted hours over 7 days.
  • Provide Post ICU support: follow up reviews, monitoring, highlight any on-going rehab, nutrition , swallow or speech issues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 5 GCSE grade 5 or equivalent. Must include Maths and English
  • NVQ level 3 or other qualification in a related area (or working toward this)

Desirable

  • Assistant practitioner qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in the NHS or NHS commissioned services
  • Previous experience of at least one of the following: Assistant in Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Speech and Language, Dietetics or carer
  • Worked as part of a multiprofessional team

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a critical care environment
  • Experience of exercise prescription and rehabilitation
  • Experience and understanding of goal setting principals

Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to communicate with people who have barriers to communication
  • Ability to problem solve and adapt to changing situations
  • Computer literate- working knowledge of word, outlook and internet usage.

Desirable

  • Experience of Audit

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: 20 March 2025

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