MSK Physiotherapy Assistant

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

Are you passionate about helping people regain independence and improve their quality of life? We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate Band 3 Physiotherapy Assistant to join our friendly Community Team.

In this rewarding role, you will work alongside physiotherapists and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality care to patients in community settings. You'll support people, their families, carers and friends throughout their rehabilitation journey, ensuring every individual feels respected, empowered and involved in their care.

You will contribute to delegated rehabilitation programmes, deliver clinical interventions following competency assessment, support both individual and group therapy sessions, and monitor patient progress, reporting outcomes to registered therapists. Using strong communication skills, sound clinical judgement and effective risk assessment, you'll help ensure safe, effective and person-centred care.

Main duties of the job

• To provide skilled and specific physiotherapy support to treat and promote the independence of patients with a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions.
• To carry out a programme of treatment prescribed by the Physiotherapists. This can include the supervision of patients individually, in the gymnasium or other group settings.
• To be responsible for housekeeping tasks including monitoring, maintaining and cleaning physiotherapy equipment and general tidiness of the department.
• Responsible for own documentation using Trust software and administration tasks as required
• Ability to travel across the Trust in a timely manner if required
• This job is based at West View Integrated Care Centre. You will also be required to work across additional sites dependent on service need; the Churchill Centre, Aylesford, Sheppey Community Hospital and Medway and Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Herne Bay. Therefore, driving is essential to the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

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.