London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Therapy Assistant Practitioner - (DMOP)
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If you have relevant qualifications, experience or transferable skills and you are interested in supporting acute hospital therapy team working alongside Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapist; then this is the post for you. You will provide therapy for frail patients with various medical and conditions in the Department of Medicine for Older People (DMOP). You will need good written and verbal communication skills, and basic IT and administrative skills.
Successful candidates will join our dynamic DMOP therapy team who will enable you to become embedded into existing therapy team with access to strong clinical leadership and established peer group support and training. You will be allocated to support Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy team as a generic therapy assistant practitioner.
Your development will be supported by joint therapy assessment with therapists, monthly one to one supervision and yearly appraisal. Based on the area you will be working in, the therapy team would have a developed in-service training programme.
We provide a 7 day service.
This post is subject to a CRB check.
Please note this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received.
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Please note that depending on current available vacancies you might be offered an opportunity to work in a different team and /or site.
To provide a high standard of therapy care within the area of work, independently assessing/treating patients under therapists guidance to facilitate maximal recovery of function and safe discharge in co-ordination with therapy team and the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Ensure appropriate accurate documentation
- To support therapy team with planning and provide individual therapy assessments and treatment plans for patients within the framework agreed by the therapist to include equipment provision where indicated.
- To support the implementation of therapy interventions for individuals or therapy groups, actively involving family and carers where appropriate, and aid in the completion of referrals for patients requiring further rehab or support on discharge.
About the Trust
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
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We Run Major Acute Services At
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Agnieszka Jaworska
- Job title: Therapy Lead
- Email address: a.jaworska@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07854222159
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