Private inpatient Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner
Closed for applications on: 22-Oct-2025 15:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 22-Oct-2025 15:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Sydney Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekend work included)
Salary
- Salary
- £33,094 - £36,195 per annum incl. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Physiotherapy Assistant practitioner
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.
Job overview
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.
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- 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.
- The post holder will assist in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by senior therapists
- 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.
- The post holder will carry out clinical assessments independently, within their Assistant Practitioner competency framework.
- The post holder will continue individualised rehabilitation and developmental programmes with patients and progress and review these with support from qualified therapists as appropriate.
- 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.
- 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.
- The post holder will be required to work weekends regularly to support the provision of daily rehab.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication
- Demonstrate a courteous and helpful approach to patients and their families, ensuring patients feel reassured and supported.
- Carry out assigned administrative tasks as directed by a Senior Therapists.
- Take patient phone calls and seek advice from Specialist Therapists when appropriate, and to use reassurance skills that require tact and persuasion on occasions.
- Report untoward incidents and any other relevant information to a Specialist Therapist immediately.
- Inform a Therapist if asked to carry out a task that the individual does not have the training or capacity to do.
- Promote the corporate image of the Trust to all individuals, groups and organisations, both within the Trust and externally to the community at large.
- Participate fully as a team member, sharing knowledge and information and supporting colleagues, to promote a cohesive team.
- Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect)
- To work as a core member of the Heart Therapy Team on the private patient ward.
- To undertake patient related administration tasks for the therapy team
- To perform complex aspects of patient care in the hospital, with direct and indirect supervision such as carrying out daily supervised patient rehabilitation.
- To perform complex aspects of assessment and patient care this may be in the hospital or out-patient clinics.
- To use appropriate and safe manual handling techniques with patients requiring neuro rehabilitation and therapeutic facilitation to achieve set goals.
- To perform clinical functional assessment procedures with patients, without any direct supervision, and basic triage assessments to facilitate appropriate onward referrals to specialist physiotherapists, occupational therapists and external agencies.
- To be aware of and adhere to the Trust policies and procedures, including infection control.
- The postholder will support the Therapy Team team in managing Anglia-ICE electronic referrals and liaising with the appropriate senior therapist
- To be aware of and adhere to local policies and procedures.
- To provide programmes of rehabilitation that have a therapeutic basis following framework guidelines laid down by the Specialist/Senior Therapists and within this set and work towards SMART rehabilitation goals.
- To use assessments made during a treatment session, along side patient feedback and liaison with a Specialist/Senior Therapist, to change and progress treatment sessions in the future.
- Awareness of safe practise, ongoing risk assessment and the need for onward referral, particularly when carrying out assessments and rehabilitation.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date patient records and mandatory statistical information to reflect care provided. To participate in audits as required.
- To gain the required knowledge and skills in the relevant technical and clinical procedures, and to maintain those skills working under the Assistant Practitioner Competency programme under the supervision of Specialist/Senior Therapists.
- To develop and maintain knowledge of rehabilitation, cardiology and cardio-thoracics
- To attend and participate in department in-service training.
- To continue to gain practical knowledge that will support the delivery of care to this particular group of patients.
- To support the day-to-day running of specialist rehabilitation from the therapy team and occasionally cover tasks outside of normal day to day responsibility at an appropriate level to this banding.
- To maintain awareness of safe practise and the need for onward referral and communication with relevant services, particularly when lone working.
Other duties
To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as requested.
Please review the job description document for full description of role duties.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • 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 criteria
- • Previous experience in assisting with rehabilitation sessions
- • Experience working with private patients
- • Previous experience of giving presentations to small groups
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Rehabilitation skills
- • Good level of IT skills including a range of MS office skills
- • Excellent organisational skills
- • Excellent communication skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Clinical Assistant practitioner certificate/diploma
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Trudi Scott
- Job title
- Heart Therapy Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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