Physiotherapy Assistant

Cambridge Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent Contract | Part Time |

24,531 per annum pro rata

20 hours per week

Monday to Friday, 4 hours per day preferred

Nuffield Health is the UKs largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, were committed to building a healthier nation. Within our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care.

Nuffield Health Cambridge is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Physiotherapy Assistant to join the Physiotherapy team at our Cambridge Hospital. The successful candidate will be fundamental to meeting our visions by bringing the very best standards of Physiotherapy care and services to our patients. The role holder will develop effective relationships with other clinicians and colleagues within the hospital and be integral in supporting the administrative responsibilities within the department.

The role holder will be required to support our inpatient physiotherapy team, in conjunction with other team members to deliver high quality care to our patients within the ward setting and actively promote the principles of health and wellbeing.

The Main Duties and Responsibilities are to:

Support the delivery of services in the inpatient department both in a clinical and non-clinical capacity.

Ensure that all clinical records are accurately maintained and conform to all legal requirements.

Complete various administrative duties to ensure the department runs efficiently and effectively. This includes both in the pre-operative assessment of patients, and during their stay in Hospital.

Deliver high quality, effective clinical care under the support of the Physiotherapy Lead and the team of Senior Physiotherapists. This will include performing exercises with patients, mobility practice, stairs assessments, rehabilitation advice and guidance and safe discharge planning.

Assisting with the delivery of our virtual patient education seminars that we run weekly via Teams.

Work flexibly to support our team.

We are looking for a committed person with excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage your own workload and work autonomously when required. You will need to have:

An NVQ 2 in Health and Social care, and relevant experience working in Healthcare.

Excellent IT and administrative skills, with experience of using electronic patient record systems.

The ability to manage your own workload and be a self-motivated, dynamic team player.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of whats important to you.

Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital

Our state-of-the-art hospital, is central Cambridges premium private hospital, boasting an Outstanding CQC score and offer a full range of medical and surgical specialties. With expertise in Cancer care and Cancer surgery, Orthopaedic surgery (including robotic surgery), Neurosurgery, Cardiology as well as specialist Paediatric services.

Backed by the latest diagnostic imaging facilities including wide bore MRI and CT scanning, we offer immediate assessment and expert diagnosis. Hospital facilities include 3 state of the art digital theatres, 32 beds, Surgical Day Case theatre/endoscopy suite, Surgical Day PODs, private consultation rooms, close monitoring units, Chemotherapy suite, on-site registered pharmacy, Diagnostic scanning unit and a Pathology laboratory.

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