Be part of our BHT familyBuckinghamshire 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
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- 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.
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Job overviewThis post is not suitable for qualified physiotherapists
Physiotherapy is an integral part of the rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury. Physiotherapy assistants are essential members of the team delivering this service, providing administrative and clinical support to the physiotherapists, along with direct involvement in patient treatment sessions.
This post involves working with patients following spinal cord injury during aquatic therapy sessions providing personal care and support in addition to providing administrative assistance within the team.
An ability to provide care to people with a disability, good verbal communication on the telephone and in face to face contact, organisational skills such as being able to respond to requests for assistance from multiple sources, a sensitive and empathetic approach in patient contact are all necessary qualities. The successful candidate will be able to carry out instructions, provide feedback and balance responses to varying demands of patient care and administrative support requested from the physiotherapists. An ability to participate in manual handling tasks is crucial. Competence and capability in undertaking out personal care, such as assisting patients with dressing and toileting, is needed. Experience of working within a team is essential.
Experience in working in a customer care setting is essential and previous employment within the NHS is desirable.
Main duties of the jobThe main duties of the job comprise:
- Assisting qualified physiotherapy staff, enabling them to implement patient treatment programmes
- Supporting the qualified physiotherapy staff in non-clinical tasks within the Aquatic Therapy environment, and occasionally in clinical treatment situations.
- Documenting and feeding back to qualified physiotherapists following all contact with patients
- Providing the necessary personal care to spinal cord injury patients to enable them to participate in Aquatic Therapy
Opportunities for training and development for this role are available through in service training, appraisal and mandatory training.
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• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
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• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
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 JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specificationExperience Essential criteria - Completion of questions in person specification
- Experience of working with people with a disability and providing personal care
- 6 months experience within a customer care (face to face) environment.
- Able to demonstrate competence in written English
- Demonstrates ability to accept and undertake responsibility for designated tasks
Desirable criteria - Previous work as a Physiotherapy Assistant or allied profession within the NHS
- Previous work in health care environment.
Skills, abilities and knowledge Essential criteria - Evidence of being a team player
- Evidence of ability to undertake manual handling tasks.
- Evidence of physical ability and endurance to work in the physical environment of the clinical area required by this post
- Evidence applicant is confident and comfortable working in a pool environment.
- Demonstrates insight into the importance of maintaining a safe working environment
- Evidence applicant is confident and comfortable in delivering personal care
Education, Qualification and Training Essential criteria - Able to demonstrate competence in spoken English
- Good level of education to GCSE standard. (at least 3 subjects)
- Level 4 GCSE or equivalent in English.
Desirable criteria - NVQ level I, II, or III in Health care
- Manual handling, Life saving or First aid qualification
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.
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f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing 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 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 interview 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 Applicant requirementsThis 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.
Documents to download - Job Description (PDF, 184.6KB)
- PTA Aquatic Therapy PS (PDF, 336.4KB)
- Functional Requirements (PDF, 192.6KB)
- Supporting Information (PDF, 136.1KB)
- Welcome to Buckinghamshire NHS Trust (PDF, 430.1KB)
- Living in Buckinghamshire (PDF, 2.0MB)
