Physiotherapy Assistant

Applications are invited from motivated individuals interested in working at Band 2 level to support the physiotherapy team providing care for older adult inpatients at Wansbeck General Hospital, within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will work as part of the multidisciplinary team, assisting physiotherapists in delivering high-quality rehabilitation and patient-centred care to older adults during their hospital stay. Experience will be gained working clinically within our inpatient team working across a variety of wards at Wansbeck General Hospital. Duties will include: clinical caseload delegated by qualified staff, documentation, ordering equipment, assistance with activities of daily living.,

• To assist physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
• To assist a qualified Physiotherapist in the implementation of treatment programmes for individual patients or groups of patients.
• Work with the physiotherapist to improve the patient's quality of life, aiming to achieve maximum functional ability and independence.
• To facilitate arrangement of appointments, transport and ordering of equipment.
• To be responsible for the overall hygiene & maintenance of the department and equipment.
  
  We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.