Lead Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Physiotherapy team as a Band 5 Lead Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner. You will combine hands-on clinical practice with leadership, supporting our team of Assistant Practitioners to deliver high-quality rehabilitation to patients with a range of complex cardiothoracic conditions. Working alongside our physiotherapists, you will manage a delegated caseload, assess and progress rehabilitation, promote independence and contribute to safe discharge planning. You will also play a key role in supporting, supervising and developing our support workers, including induction, competencies, appraisals and training. We are looking for an organised, motivated and compassionate practitioner with rehabilitation experience, excellent communication skills and experience supporting junior staff or students. This post is a full time 12 month fixed term contract, and may include weekend shifts. Join a specialist team at an internationally renowned cardiothoracic hospital, where you can develop your leadership skills, influence services and make a real difference to patients.Main duties of the job

• Manage a delegated caseload, undertaking assessment, treatment and progression of rehabilitation for patients with a range of cardiothoracic conditions.
• Work independently within agreed competencies, alongside registered therapists and the wider multidisciplinary team, to promote patient recovery, independence and safe discharge.
• Provide day-to-day leadership and support to Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioners.
• Coordinate recruitment, induction, competency development, training, supervision and appraisal of staff.
• Support staff development through teaching, mentoring and the delivery of clinical competencies.
• Represent and advocate for AHP support workers through departmental, Trust and wider system forums.
• Contribute to service improvement, audit and evaluation projects to support high-quality rehabilitation services.
• Participate flexibly in the enhanced seven-day Physiotherapy service.
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour