Main area Community Neurological Rehabilitation Service Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
30 hours per week Job ref 434-CR7333089
Employer Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Rayners Hedge Town Aylesbury Salary £27,485 - £30,162 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/09/2025 23:59
Therapy Assistant
Band 4
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
* Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
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* Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community Neurological Rehabilitation Service based at Rayners Hedge in Aylesbury. As the Therapy Assistant you will be supporting the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy teams to provide client centred neurological rehabilitation.
This post will suit a motivated, hard working and enthusiastic person who wishes to work within a multidisciplinary team whose aim is to enable clients and their families to live a meaningful life alongside their neurological condition.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to assist qualified therapists in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of neurological rehabilitation programmes. You may work with clients within the clinical base, their home or within the community.
You will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills, work experience with people and/or within a therapy environment, excellent IT and a willingness to develop and grow into the role.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the attachments in the advert.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Current driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
* Relevant NVQ, QCF, or RQF qualification
* Exercise/anatomy/BTEC or equivalent
Experience
* Expertise in relevant work e.g. work experience within rehabilitation/therapy/personal trainer
* Experience of working with people
* Desire to work within physiotherapy/occupational therapy.
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Ability to safely manage manual handling tasks.
* Ability to assume responsibility for a delegated caseload of clients.
* Knowledge of neurological conditions
* Knowledge of healthcare
* Ability to safely manage manual handling tasks
* Ability to assume responsibility for a caseload of clients
PPE requirements:Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Gosia Wychadanczuk /Laura Hartley Job title Neuro PT/Specialist Neuro OT Email address buc-tr.CNRS@nhs.net Telephone number 01296 831980 Additional information
Gosia works Tuesday - Thursday and Laura works Weds - Friday.
If there are any queries outside of these working days please contact Dr Bronwen Bonfield Lead Clinical Psychologist & North Team Clinical Co-ordinator in Community Neurological Rehabilitation.
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