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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Advanced Rehabilitation Assistant (Amputees)
Accepting applications until: 04-Jan-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 04-Jan-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Amputee Rehabilitation Unit, Lambeth Community Care Centre
- Cyfeiriad
- Monkton Street
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE114TX
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Mon, Wed, Thurs and Fri 8.30-4.30pm (alternative working patterns can be discussed at interview))
Salary
- Cyflog
- £33,094 - £36,195 per annum inc. HCA (Pro Rata for 30 hours per week)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Rehabilitation Assistant (Amputees)
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 13/01/2026
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
Interviews for this role will be face to face only.
The Amputee Rehabilitation Unit (ARU) is an established 12 bedded unit, located at the Lambeth Community Care Centre, Kennington. The essence of the ARU model of care is to provide specialist rehabilitation for people who have undergone major amputation. Therapy is delivered over 5 days to maximise patient outcomes and goal attainment over approximately 6 weeks.
The ARU brings together the essential elements of evidence based post-operative amputee care in an appropriately staffed and equipped specialist unit. Such elements include access to specialist medical, nursing, therapy, prosthetics and counselling professionals in amputee care. This facilitates early mobilisation, prosthetic provision and psychological care within a dedicated and intensive rehabilitation setting.
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The post holder will carry out assigned therapy and rehabilitation tasks as part of the flexible ARU multi-disciplinary therapy team. The will ensure high standards of personal, therapy and rehabilitation care to patients by primarily assisting the ARU therapists in assessing patients and following care plans. Some aspects of care provision will be conducted without direct supervision.
The post holder will work with both occupational therapists and physiotherapists and carry out tasks across the disciplines.
The post holder will work closely with our rehabilitation nurses encouraging function and physical activity on the ward.
The post holder will also have non clinical tasks such as stock checks, ordering equipment, equipment maintenance and audits and must be proficient is the use of EPIC.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Amputee Rehabilitation Unit forms part of the South East London Amputee Rehabilitation Pathway. It is sandwiched by the Acute Vascular and Amputee Hub at the acute site of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and Bowley Close Outpatient Amputee Rehabilitation Hub for life long outpatient care.
We pride ourselves on offering world class evidenced based care for amputees, and are privileged to offer a unique additional step in the amputee pathway ; intensive inpatient rehabilitation.
This is a high profile service which aims to go above and beyond usual care.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please see in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification documents for details of the job role and the requirements.
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.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of assessing patients requiring walking/ other aids and instruct them in their proper and safe usage
- Experience of working as a band 3 or band 4 within therapies in the NHS
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working with amputees in a rehabilitation setting
- Experience working within vascular surgery, orthopaedics or plastic surgery department or other rehabilitation setting
- Experience completing outcome measures
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Demonstrates knowledge of health care delivery
- Knowledge about the role of the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist
- Knowledge of the proper and safe use of wheelchairs
Meini prawf dymunol
- Proficient in use of health clinical systems and prior use of EPIC
- Knowledge of amputee rehabilitation
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Able to maintain own caseload of patients with complex conditions, as delegated by the occupational therapist and/or physiotherapist and to prioritise appropriately in order to meet deadlines
- Ability to treat patients within prescribed clinical protocols/programmes with minimum or no immediate supervision
- Ability to progress (and/or make minor adjustments to) prescribed treatment plans, when appropriate, by using own clinical judgement and knowledge within agreed parameters
- Ability to assess and prescribe simple aids and equipment for personal and domestic activities of daily living
- Ability to plan and lead group patient treatment
- Organic written communication evident from application
Meini prawf dymunol
- Skills of applying and using Early Walking Aids
Qualifications/Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Established and significant experience in a therapy unit/department working with inpatient and outpatient populations
- Completed Health & Social Care NVQ Level 4 or equivalent
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience working with vascular, orthopaedic or amputee patients
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Michelle Knowles
- Teitl y swydd
- Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 02030496912
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