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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Advanced Therapy Assistant
Accepting applications until: 31-Aug-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 31-Aug-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £33,094 - £36,195 p.a. inc. HCA
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 4)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Physiotherapy
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are currently recruiting Advanced Therapy Assistants to our musculoskeletal and physiotherapy services, this will also include our talent pool (reserve list).
We at Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust physiotherapy department are looking for you to come and join our physiotherapy team as an Advanced Physiotherapy Assistant especially if you have been working in exercise rehabilitation or the exercise health sector. We work in several specialties of physiotherapy which includes outpatients and/or providing rehabilitation in gyms.
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Working with patients with a variety of acute and chronic MSK conditions.
Independent 1:1 caseload of (remote rehabilitation and face to face working).
Can involve managing an inpatient or outpatient caseload.
Administration duties within your role and the team.
Progression or regression of patient exercise plan.
Organising and delivering remote and in person classes.
Hydrotherapy, exercise prescription and multidisciplinary working.
The role also includes working with Physiotherapists in the outpatient setting.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The post holder will work within the physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team and assist in the care and treatment of our patients. We deliver high quality of physiotherapy across several sites in London including community settings.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
For the role you will be expected to:
- work independently within the physiotherapy team
- prescribe, progress and develop exercise programs for patients undergoing rehabilitation which may include hydrotherapy, inpatient rehabilitation, pelvic health, remote rehabilitation and gym exercise sessions.
- give essential support in setting up and management of smooth running of condition specific exercise classes for adults of all ages and abilities, this will include various administrative tasks.
You will need to have a confident approach to work and demonstrate excellent organisational and interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients and staff. You will need to be physically fit. You will also need to demonstrate an understanding and willingness to work as part of a team, manage your own time effectively and work unsupervised for part of the day. Microsoft computer skills are essential for this role as you will be involved in data collection and reporting.
Previous NHS experience is not essential, however experience in personal training or working with people with long term conditions in or outside of work is desirable. We offer robust in-service training and individual personal development.
Please note, if successful to our talent pool (reserve list) you will not automatically receive a confirmed offer of employment but we will offer within 6 months should another post become available. If in that time we are not able to appoint you to a substantive post it will be necessary for you to make a fresh application.
The interview involves a small amount of practical.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Physical requirements
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Physically fit and able to carry out moderate physical effort throughout the working day
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Highly skilled and technically specialised in treating in a clinical, gym or gym environment
- Knowledge and experience of a range of manual handling techniques.
- Knowledge of health care delivery and the role of the physiotherapist
- Work with guidelines and protocols without immediate supervision
- Able to maintain own caseload of patients with complex conditions requiring technical proficiency/ knowledge, as delegated by the physiotherapist
- Ability to manage large groups of patients at one time
- Ability to teach other members of the team
- Ability to work effectively and contribute as a member of a multi-therapy and multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner and maintain legible and accurate notes in the POMR system
- Recognise boundaries of own responsibilities
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the differing needs of the patients
- Demonstrates a good understanding of confidentiality both written and verbal and how this applies to the physiotherapy environment
- Ability to communicate clinical information or advice to patients and relatives in a clear, understandable and effective manner.
- Demonstrate good interpersonal skills
- Evidence of being self-motivated
- Communicate and work effectively with other clinical staff and patients from a diverse range of social and cultural backgrounds range
Meini prawf dymunol
- Good awareness of clinical governance issues related to the physiotherapy environment
- Advanced computer skills
- Experience of supervision and /or management of a small team of people
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Patient treatment experience using relevant clinical skills
- Experience of management of exercise equipment including monitoring use and maintenance
Meini prawf dymunol
- Previous experience of working in sports and fitness industry
- Previous experience as a physio assistant
- Experience of supervision and /or management of a small team of people
Knowledge/Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Evidence of literacy and numeracy to GCSE level
- Foundation degree in Health and Social Care or equivalent
- Committed to own personal development
Meini prawf dymunol
- Sports and fitness diploma / degree
- Member of Assistants CIG
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Finnian Maloney
- Teitl y swydd
- Deputy Clinical Lead Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 02071885111
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
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