Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner

The closing date is 03 June 2025

Job summary

INTERNAL ONLY

Are you a highly skilled and motivated Assistant Practitioner ready to take the next step in your leadership journey?

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and forward-thinking Lead Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner to provide strategic and professional leadership for our highly skilled team of Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioners who assist in the delivery of a comprehensive rehabilitation service to inpatients and outpatients with a wide range of cardiothoracic conditions at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated leader with strong clinical expertise, proven management skills, and a passion for innovation to help shape the future of our physiotherapy and support worker services.

As Lead Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner post, you will have oversight including ensuring delivery of recruitment, induction, core and advanced training, professional supervision, clinical and non-clinical tasks and annual appraisals. The post holder will engage with Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioners, PSS/AHP unregistered staff, lead forums for unregistered staff and represent AHP support workers within the CPFT Integrated Care Board (ICB).

The post holder will be required to balance clinical and non-clinical commitments within their daily and weekly job plan. This will vary depending on leadership requirements, clinical need and staffing. The post holder will be expected to participate in an enhanced seven day service.

Main duties of the job

What we provide to you:

Support and teaching to enable you to provide excellent patient care and advanced skills

Specialist departmental and team in service training

Regular one to ones, clinical supervision, appraisals, and competency support

Access to in house and external courses and conferences

Opportunity for service development projects, audits and research

Support and guidance for you to mentor staff

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

06 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2526-2-PS1260

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma or equivalent appropriate qualification or relevant experience to diploma level

Desirable

Evidence of leadership training

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a Therapies or Rehabilitation Support Worker/ Assistant and managing own caseload of non-complex conditions
Knowledge of basic medical and rehabilitation terminology, cardiorespiratory conditions and associated surgery
Experience of teaching and presentation to peers and multi-professional colleagues within the Trust
Evidence of excellent communication skills, including verbal, non-verbal and written
Demonstrable organisation skills. Ability to prioritise workload and work independently and to support others with this. Experience of self-directed working/ability to prioritise tasks
Ability to work flexibly across the Therapies teams and be a team player
Ability to use own initiative, multitask and problem solve, but recognises own limitations, and support others to do so
Demonstrates understanding of the meaning of confidentiality & the requirement for this to be maintained
Experience of supervision and mentorship of junior staff or students

Desirable

Experience with documentation in Electronic Patient Records
Experience of using MS Teams

Additional Criteria

Essential

Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion Excellence Collaboration and associated behaviour standard at all times
Highly motivated and committed to personal and service development at Royal Papworth Hospital
Able to demonstrate professionalism, resilience and reflection
Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
Ability to work flexibly in an enhanced seven day service

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma or equivalent appropriate qualification or relevant experience to diploma level

Desirable

Evidence of leadership training

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a Therapies or Rehabilitation Support Worker/ Assistant and managing own caseload of non-complex conditions
Knowledge of basic medical and rehabilitation terminology, cardiorespiratory conditions and associated surgery
Experience of teaching and presentation to peers and multi-professional colleagues within the Trust
Evidence of excellent communication skills, including verbal, non-verbal and written
Demonstrable organisation skills. Ability to prioritise workload and work independently and to support others with this. Experience of self-directed working/ability to prioritise tasks
Ability to work flexibly across the Therapies teams and be a team player
Ability to use own initiative, multitask and problem solve, but recognises own limitations, and support others to do so
Demonstrates understanding of the meaning of confidentiality & the requirement for this to be maintained
Experience of supervision and mentorship of junior staff or students

Desirable

Experience with documentation in Electronic Patient Records
Experience of using MS Teams

Additional Criteria

Essential

Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion Excellence Collaboration and associated behaviour standard at all times
Highly motivated and committed to personal and service development at Royal Papworth Hospital
Able to demonstrate professionalism, resilience and reflection
Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
Ability to work flexibly in an enhanced seven day service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)