Band 3 General Therapy Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and driven therapy assistant to join our Medical Specialities Therapy team. The team supports and provides care to patient across a variety of medical specialities. You will be working under the guidance of physiotherapists and occupational therapists, assisting patients with rehabilitation and supporting their safe discharge from the hospital. This post offers a rewarding opportunity for someone looking to gain experience working within therapy team. You will have support to develop your skills in assessment and treatment of patients across the medical specialities, at the same time as having the opportunity to expand your knowledge with access to in-service training, regular supervision and support. Key responsibilities of the post include, gathering information on patient's history, ordering equipment, follow up with exercise plans already established by therapist and working as an essential team member in the Multi-Disciplinary
Team. You will also be required to participate in a 7-day service., To provide skilled routine, and non-routine, clinical and technical support to the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy team and clerical staff associated with the team.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.