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NHS LOTHIAN
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DIVISION
Therapy Services
RIE
Band 4 Acute Medicine Team
Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner
37 hours per week
Permanent
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic physiotherapy assistant practitioner to join our Acute Medicine Physiotherapy team. These teams are focussed on providing physiotherapy assessment and treatment to a wide range of patients in our Acute Medical Unit and General Medicine wards with key aim of enabling individuals to regain independent physical function.
As a physiotherapy assistant practitioner you will be allocated a delegated patient caseload by the registered physiotherapist. For your caseload and when relevant you will be expected to work independently, assessing the patient's needs, modifying treatment plans, and delivering this care without supervision. This will include progressing patients, reassessing and discharging within scope of practice. Full engagement with the multidisciplinary team on your ward is another key part of this position.
This position will have a key clinical leadership role within the general medicine ward – where you will manage a significant ward caseload under supervision of a registered physiotherapist.
You will also support the physiotherapy team through a range of non-clinical duties, from equipment ordering, referring patients to primary care teams, to assisting with statistical information collation for patient activity audit purposes. You may also be involved in assisting with support of band 3 physiotherapy support workers.
The range of conditions encountered and requirement for excellence in clinical reasoning and team working in this post at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh will allow the successful candidate to gain extensive and in-depth experience as a band 4 physiotherapy assistant practitioner.
Physiotherapy Services support staff development through appraisal processes, supervision and CPD opportunities.
There is a regular weekend working rota, (at a frequency of approximately 1 weekend in 8) and weekend working days are balanced with days off during weekdays.
Candidates must display evidence of clinical experience of work in a variety of areas ideally including Acute and/or General Medicine or other medical services, and will have relevant / current experience as a band 3 therapy support worker, or as a band 4 assistant practitioner.
For further information please contact: -
Katie McBrierty Team Lead Physiotherapist 0131 242 3310 (Bleep 5339)
Or
Jo Pentland 0131 242 1974
Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.
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