Therapy Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking for  a highly motivated and innovative Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join the inpatient therapy team, Team Merrit  at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (34hrs per week).

We are looking for someone  who  has had previous therapy support worker experience within Physiotherapy and/ or Occupational Therapy teams.   The successful post holder will carry a non-complex patient caseload, working with patients from assessment through to discharge.

Additional training will be provided by registered therapists to enable the successful candidate to  work autonomously delivering patient centred physiotherapy and occupational therapy to our medical  inpatients.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will  carry their own caseload from assessment to  discharge.  The post involves working alongside qualified therapists as well as with other members of the support worker team  and the Care Transfer Hub team to provide therapy input to patients across the acute wards.

The post holder needs to be flexible, have good time management skills, confident IT skills, and work well in a team as well as independently.

We expect the post holder to manage their own caseload and be able to  delegate duties appropriately.

We  work  over the weekends and Bank Holidays which is worked pro rata via a rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.