Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

Job description

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

The Therapy Assistant Practitioner will provide general and specific care to adults, as specified below, and will be proficient and competent to work across therapy disciplines. The worker will be flexible and prepared to work as part of a dynamic team, willing to support the MDT and to adapt their approach to meet the needs of patients putting patients at the heart of what they do.

To be an integral member of the Hub Bed and Chartridge Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), providing prompt delivery of therapy interventions and equipment to patients, in liaison with senior staff, which support improving a patient's function and discharge home.

To take responsibility for designated elements of the patient treatment protocols and delivery of such treatments in patients within their current location (Hub Bed Care Home, ward and occasionally patients own homes)

To acts as a technical resource in relations to the provision of mobility equipment.

Main duties of the job
• Deliver therapy interventions within the clinical setting within set protocols and within the scope of the Therapy Assistant Practitioner role.

To undertake assessment of appropriate patients following signed off competencies and only on appropriate delegation by the supervising Therapist.

Deliver high standards of care, manage a defined caseload, plan and set up reviews and deliver individual programmes without direct supervision following signed off competencies and on appropriate delegation by the supervising Therapist
• Provide therapeutic intervention including exercise prescription or identified task practice to support reductions in service needs and improvements in function and to be able review and progress as able.

To assess for and fit, adjust, demonstrate and operate equipment to assist the patient to gain maximum independence following appropriate training and competency sign off. To review equipment, use and feedback to the Therapist.

Where appropriate and as part of Therapy sessions, assist patients in maintaining their personal hygiene, including oral hygiene, grooming and dressing needs with respects for culture and religious needs, ensuring privacy and dignity at all times. Enable and assist the patient as directed or outlined within the patient's goal planning progress plan appropriate to their ability and condition.

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