Overview
An opportunity has arisen to work as a band 3 physiotherapy assistant within the neuro-elderly service at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This full-time post will involve working with the inpatient physiotherapy team across multiple wards at North Tyneside General Hospital. The post holder will have a commitment to our 7 day service.
Responsibilities
* To assist physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
* To assist a qualified Physiotherapist in the implementation of treatment programmes for individual patients or groups of patients.
* Work with the physiotherapist to improve the patient’s quality of life, aiming to achieve maximum functional ability and independence.
* To facilitate arrangement of appointments, transport and ordering of equipment.
* To be responsible for the overall hygiene & maintenance of the department and equipment.
* To be accountable to a specialist team leader and ultimately site manager.
* To work predominantly within an identified client group but be prepared to work flexibly across the service.
About the service
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.
Closing date
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025.
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