Specialist Therapy Technician

The Specialised Technician provides daily support to Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists with a large and complex caseload of patients admitted under Trauma & Orthopaedics and Plastics., The Speciliased Technician works autonomously completing a therapist-led rehab programme- for example continuing mobility practice, completing standardised cognitive assessments, bed and chair exercise programmes, plinth or parallel bar amputee rehab and practice with home adaptive equipment.

The Specialised Technician is also responsibility for maintaining and ordering all essential therapy stock and equipment as well as maintaining a safe working therapy gym in-line with infection control and health and safety policies.

The Specialised Therapy Technician is responsible for maintaining a large stock of wheelchairs as well as all stock ordering for Trauma & Orthopaedics, including lower limb and spinal braces.

The Specialised Therapy Technician is responsible for ordered all mobility aids- frames, sticks and crutches for all Physiotherapists for St George's site.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, St George's Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, and two health centres, St Johns Therapy Centre, and The Nelson Centre.

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.