Therapy Assistant

at  Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Therapy Assistant who wants to work within a team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists in a highly supportive acute hospital environment to implement and progress rehabilitation programmes enabling patients to be discharged from hospital as soon possible. The work is physically demanding but very rewarding.
You will receive on the job training based on a structured competency framework, and will be well supported by qualified Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists.
We are looking for candidates with good communication skills and the ability to motivate patients and who ideally have previous experience of working with people in an enabling or caring environment, although this is not essential.
The successful candidates will need to be a manual car driver (unless medically exempt) and be prepared to work in a flexible way including 7 day working.
This will be a rotational post within the Medicine, Surgery, Front door/ED and Long Term Conditions.
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.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
We encourage informal visit in the hospital and meet the team.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us

Please refer the Job description for details