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Physiotherapy Assistant Therapy Practitioner
The closing date is 05 August 2025
Department: Learning Disability and Forensics
Responsible to: Team Lead Physiotherapist and Team Manager
Accountable to: Physiotherapy Professional Lead
Base: Saffron Ground, Stevenage. Car required due to nature of the role.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary:
To provide assessment and treatment of designated service users under the supervision of a registered Physiotherapist. To work alongside existing Physiotherapy staff, alone or with other MDT staff.
All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
To work individually with service users on specific tasks as identified by a registered Physiotherapist.
To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
To be able to work flexibly across a wide variety of settings within the service
To work in a lone environment visiting service users at home, assessing and managing risk.
To maintain records to required professional standards
To liaise with carers and other professionals as relevant
To attend mandatory training and demonstrate application during interventions
To complete the Band 4 competency framework within the agreed time frames
Clinical Responsibility
To undertake assessment of appropriate service users as delegated by a registered Physiotherapist and to deliver and progress individual treatment programmes.
To recognise changes and communicate assessment and treatment results back to the registered physiotherapist.
To have knowledge and understanding of conditions associated with learning disabilities and physiotherapy interventions used to treat these
To independently carry out group work as delegated by a registered Physiotherapist
To train and assess competency of carers to carry out treatment programmes as prescribed by the registered physiotherapist
To participate in and independently carry out treatment sessions in rebound and aquatic therapy as delegated by a registered Physiotherapist
To gain valid consent for interventions working within a legal framework with service users who lack capacity to consent to treatment
To carry out assessments and manual treatments of service users with moderate physical effort and to comply with the Trusts Manual Handling Policy at all times.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAININ G
* Knowledge of Physiotherapy techniques and/or activities relevant to client group, acquired through training and experience
* Willingness to undertake relevant training in rebound, aquatic therapy, passive movements and/or computing skills within 12 months of appointment
* Membership of Professional Body (CSP)
* Technical /teaching qualification e.g. City & Guilds or Health & Social Care NVQ level 3 and experience /training as a Mental Health Worker
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
* Detail areas of experience and knowledge required. Utilise the job description, KSF outline to highlight particular areas, e.g. care planning, change management, Microsoft Office.
* Experience of working in paid or voluntary employment relevant to post.
* Understanding of professional conduct
* Previous experience working in the field of Learning Disabilities or other relevant transferrable setting (eg paediatrics, long term neuro)
* Experience of community and MDT working
* Health, social care and / or teaching experience
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.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
£27,485 to £30,162 a yearPer annum, Pro rata
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