NRC Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

Exciting Opportunities to Join Our National Centre’s Rehab Team as a Rehab Assistant Practitioner!

We are looking to recruit Rehab Assistant Practitioners (Band 4) and trainee Rehab Assistant Practitioners (Band 3-4 progressional); this is an exciting opportunity to join the team and be part of this new centre of excellence.

The NRC will be a new, purpose-built 70-bed facility which will be built on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, delivering a centre of excellence to improve rehabilitation services in England. It is co-located with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre and will share some of the world class rehabilitation facilities. Thanks to an academic partnership led by the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University, research and innovation and training and education in rehabilitation will be embedded at the NRC and central to clinical practice. We are looking for ambitious and dedicated individuals to join this journey to rehabilitation excellence, transforming outcomes for patients.

We’re offering 3 fantastic pathways to become a Band 4 Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner (AP):

Option 1: Direct Entry to Band 4

Option 2: Progressional Band 3-Band 4 Apprentice Route – Earn While You Learn and get a Foundation Degree!

Option 3: Progressional Band 3-Band 4 Competency-Based Development Route

Whichever route you choose, you’ll be fully supported in your development and have the chance to build a rewarding career in rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

The Rehab Assistant Practitioner (AP) is an exciting new role that promotes rehabilitation and includes skills across Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy and is a vital part of the multidisciplinary team. The aim of this role is to support the rehabilitation patients receive whilst at the NRC. There will be several opportunities at the NRC in this role, including:

• Work with advanced rehab technology
• Support patients in hydrotherapy
• Facilitate a variety of health and wellbeing groups
• Support patients in a gym setting
• Use of the 300-acre rehab estate

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached: Rehab AP 3 routes, job description and person specification documents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.