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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a full time band 3 Therapy Assistant to become part of a dynamic Elective Orthopaedic Therapy team at Winchester Hospital.

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated and enthusiastic who is seeking an opportunity to implement and progress rehabilitation programmes to ward based patients. Your role will involve working alongside both Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists in the patient pathway from admission to discharge to provide a safe and timely discharge from hospital.

You can expect to receive a robust induction and competency training programme. This will be further developed through regular training and supervision sessions with senior members of the team.

We are Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of therapy assistant service to ward based patients.
• To work with the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, in the implementation and progression of rehabilitation programmes.
• To support with educating and assessing patients in the Arthroplasty Education Clinic.
• To enable patients to achieve their optimum level of independence in mobility and activities of daily living on the Orthopaedic wards
• To be responsible for the continuation of rehabilitation programmes during weekdays, weekends and bank holidays.
• The post holder will participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team assisting with specified duties and to take responsibility for planning his/her own work duties.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.