Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Slough

Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Slough

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 day ago, 26 Oct | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: b491763257fb4c33a6c70ee5196defe5

Full Job Description

+ Are a physiotherapy technician with hospital inpatient orthopaedic experience.
+ Are interested in the assessment, rehabilitation and onward signposting and referral of patients following admission to the orthopaedic wards.
+ Are excited to manage your own caseload, treating non-complex patients independently.
+ Keen to help develop and supervise a member of staff in the team at band 2-3.
+ We would also consider a band 3 - 4 progressive post in which you would be supported to achieve band 4 competencies.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.