# Bank Therapy Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Hampshire County Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £15.93 per hour
- **Contract type:** Bank
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Other, 0 hours per week (0 hours)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T13:40:46.106Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Winchester/Hampshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Therapies/Therapies-v8241253
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8241253?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Acute Team at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital. We are looking for a Bank Band 4 Therapy Practitioner to join our established, friendly and experienced team.

The role will require a highly motivated enthusiastic individual who has the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. The successful candidate will be able to show initiative, have good communication and organisational skills, being able to prioritise a caseload in a busy acute setting.

If you have had experience in a Therapy Assistant role, preferably in an Acute setting, and are looking to further develop your career, we would love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

The role will be based in the Acute adult inpatient team and rotate through areas including General Medicine, Cardiac, Surgical, Elderly Care and the Therapy Early Discharge Support team (TEDS). You will provide acute rehabilitation to maximise independence and facilitate discharge from the hospital setting. This will involve working closely with Therapy colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team.

Successful candidates are expected to hold a valid UK manual car drivers full licence or be able to arrange alternative means to complete community visits as required, unless medically exempt.

Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust is happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview. We cover a 7 day service so regular weekend working will be required.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered. There are options for compressed hours with the service covering 8am-6pm during the week.

We encourage informal visit in the hospital and meet the team.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Ability

**Essential**

- Demonstrates good time management
- Evidence of the ability to use own initiative
- Evidence of good communication skills
- Ability to drive a manual car

**Desirable**

- Evidence of being a team player
- Previous experience supervising/supporting other

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Previous experience working as a Band 3 Therapy assistant
- Previous experience working within the acute hospital setting
- Experience of working in an enabling or caring environment

### Training and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Key Stage 2 English
- Key Stage 2 Numeracy
- Evidence of having attained or of working towards a recognised qualification, (NVQ 3 level), to enable implementation of prescribed rehabilitation programmes for a range of conditions- eg Foundation degree, NVQ relevant competency framework, or equivalent

## Documents

- [pledge (pdf, 205.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10552148)
- [band 4 jd (pdf, 832.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10552147)
- [hhft employee rewards & benefits (pdf, 723.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=900)
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