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Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner
The closing date is 30 June 2025
Do you want to gain experience as a Band 4 Assistant practitioner and be involved in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of Trauma and Orthopaedic patients?
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen to work alongside experienced physiotherapy clinicians in the area of Trauma and Orthopaedics in Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Pontyclun.
You will carry out treatment programs under the guidance of a registered therapist in order to provide rehabilitation and other interventions to facilitate safe discharge. Some clerical and administration tasks will also be undertaken (e.g. keeping records, filing, photocopying). You will be expected to work independently.
The successful candidate will be working as part of a rehabilitation trial, providing additional treatment session to hip fracture patients. There will also be the opportunity to work with the research and development team to input the research data.
This is an excellent opportunity for somebody who has previous experience as a therapy or rehabilitation assistant in an NHS or care setting.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
The successful candidate will be working as part of a rehabilitation trial, providing additional treatment session to hip fracture patients. There will also be the opportunity to work with the research and development team to input the research data.
This post is Fixed Term/Secondment until 30 November 2026 due to funding
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
* We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one tea
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualification
* NVQ 3 level or equivalent knowledge of specific patient conditions or level 3 certificate in personal training/fitness instruction
* Basic understanding of proper and safe use of therapy equipment
Experience
* Experience of working as Band 3 in healthcare or equivalent experience from the leisure or social care sector
* Experience of delivering rehabilitation with patient/service users that require high levels of supervision and advanced communication techniques.
IT & Quality Improvement
* Standard keyboard skills and familiarity of computer software i.e. word processing, email, excel
* Involvement in service development and experience of data collection and analysis.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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