Job overview
To work as part of the inpatient physiotherapy team assisting physiotherapists with the rehabilitation of patients.
To ensure all physiotherapy departments, hydrotherapy treatment, ward and physiotherapy storage areas are clean and prepared for use. This will involve clearing up after use and ensuring all areas meet health and safety
requirements.
To ensure all physiotherapy, hand therapy and hydrotherapy equipment is
available, prepared, clean and ready for use.
To carry out administrative tasks as required by the physiotherapists’
accurate data collection, printing operation list and notes, collecting and filing patients’ records, making appointments, faxing, photocopying, ordering and maintaining stock levels within the department and in the ward environment.
Documenting health and safety checks for the department and physiotherapy areas.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Physiotherapy Assistant to join our dynamic, friendly and supportive team of physiotherapists and assistants. The post is varied, you will mainly be working on the wards of the adult inpatient orthopaedic team but may also be required to work in musculoskeletal outpatients and hydrotherapy on occasion and the role will require participation in the weekend working rota.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person with relevant experience. Good communication skills are essential and the ability to work with people as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Your role will have clinical and non-clinical duties including:
1. Assisting physiotherapists with the provision of inpatient post-operative rehabilitation, helping patients to complete their exercise programmes and practice their mobility when directed by a qualified physiotherapist.
2. Cleaning / maintenance of physiotherapy equipment and treatment areas and stock maintenance.
3. Administrative support duties such as making patient referrals, making appointments, data entry, photocopying, filing, scanning and managing email correspondence to the department. Within the physiotherapy department you will be supported by experienced senior staff. There is an active in-service training programmes and continued professional development is viewed as integral to providing quality patient care.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .