Therapy Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Department at Basingstoke Hospital for a Band 4 Therapy Practitioner.

We are looking for somebody who will be able to fulfil the following:

• Able to participate in seven day working pattern
• Team player
• To build rapport with patients, relatives and staff members
• To be a dynamic member of the team
• Keen to develop self and others within the department

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring therapy referrals are timely and appropriate
• Ensuring patients with complex needs are escalated to qualified therapy staff
• Collating relevant patient specific information
• Carrying out basic assessments
• Delivering therapy interventions and progressing patients with non-complex needs
• Liaising closely with therapists, ward staff, patients, and their families
• Support the ward team in achieving a basic knowledge and level of competence in rehab, through supervision and teaching
• Ordering equipment when indicated
• Participating as a member of the multi-disciplinary team assisting with the specified duties, taking responsibility for planning his/her own work duties and caseload.

About us

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.