Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

27 hours per week (with potential to become full time in the future)
Vascular wards and Inpatient and Outpatient Amputation Rehabilitation Service
Responsible to: Physiotherapy team lead
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Frimley Park Hospital is the regional vascular centre serving a population of approximately 1.4million. The service supports a number of spoke hospital including Basingstoke, Royal Surrey, Wexham Park and Ashford and St Peter's.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK., As a Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner working within the Vascular and amputation rehabilitation team you will work alongside a team of experienced physiotherapists assessing and treating patients. You will work with patients who have undergone major limb amputation in both an in and outpatient setting, providing rehabilitation from acute phase up to and including prosthetic rehabilitation., To work under the indirect supervision of a qualified therapist in providing a high standard therapy service to patients requiring therapy.
The post holder will:
· Assist in the provision of care to patients, supported and supervised by a qualified therapist.
· Carry out clinical tasks (such as instruction/supervision and prescription of individual exercise programmes), delegated by qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, manual therapy skills, as well as an excellent level of interpersonal skills.
· To take handover and undertake discharge planning
· To help manage a specified patient caseload, to include patients with complex rehabilitation goals including vascular and amputee in patients and out patients.
· To provide high quality exercise sessions to patients in an in patient and out patient setting.
· Participate in continued personal development
· To contribute in the induction and training of new therapy staff, therapy students and other non-qualified health care staff within the therapy team
· To order and monitor stock of disposable therapy equipment.
· To contribute to the supervision and training of other therapy assistants
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.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. 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.
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