Therapy Technician | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,199 - £34,876 including HCAS per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 August 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 8JL |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7325765/391-NMUH-7325765 |
Summary
Band 4 Therapy Technical Instructor
Are you an experienced therapy assistant with an interest in inpatient rehabilitation? Consider joining our friendly and forward thinking team where you will be supported by experienced physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and the wider multidisciplinary team to develop/ enhance a range of generic rehabilitation skills and competencies to assist with the treatment of our adult inpatients.
This post is for Capetown & Canterbury wards on the Chase Farm Hospital site and there is potential for rotation to our sister unit – Magnolia just a short distance away on the St Michael’s site.
Capetown ward provides inpatient rehabilitation and short term health stepdown for adults and older people presenting with a variety of clinical conditions including after Orthopaedic surgery, decreased mobility after a fall, exacerbation of a long-term condition, recovery from acute medical problems and deconditioning following an extended hospital stay. Many of our patients have multiple pathologies and complex needs that require comprehensive assessment and close working with the multi-disciplinary team to support recovery and discharge planning.
Our therapy services are supported by senior therapy clinician as well as an Integrated Therapy Lead . This is an exciting time to join us as we integrate rehabilitation services across our wards to develop a streamlined patient pathway including offering a 7 day service.
The post holder will be an integral member of the Inpatient rehabilitation team & MDT.
This service provides short term Inpatient nursing and therapy services to patients admitted for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery promoting independence and encouraging integration back to the community. The post holder will provide therapy assessments and interventions within the remit of their role to inpatients under the supervision of the senior therapy clinicians within the team.
The post holder will be required to support the delivery of rehabilitation and recovery programmes including individualised and group based therapeutic sessions and education / enabling programmes and also to visit patients in their own homes to carryout prescribed treatment and assess for and provide appropriate mobility aids and equipment directlyor by prescription.
The post holder will work alone with access to a qualified therapy team member for support and supervision as required.
The post holder may be required to work at various sites as part of the role to support Inpatient services , including out in the community in people’s homes and also be part of a 7-day therapy service as directed by the Integrated Therapies Lead.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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·To undertake clinical work delegated by the qualified therapystaff including Physiotherapist, Occupational therapist and at times by a Speech & Language therapist.
·To be responsible for a designated caseload ofpatients.
·To work effectively as a member of a team in providing a programmeof ward based therapeuticactivities- individual & group based.
·To contribute to all stages of the therapeutic process including:-
o Information gathering through liaison with clients,their informal carers, and colleagues from health and otheragencies.
o Completing simple assessments, through interview and observationof functionaltasks.
o Provision of aids andequipment
o Identifying needs and forming goals and plans forinterventions.
o Completing a wide range of interventions including: - giving therapeutic advice; mobility, transfers , functional , ADL based rehabilitation programmes, enabling self-management of conditions through patient and carer education, home assessments and home based therapy programmes, equipmentassessment, prescription and safe use within the ward based as well as home environment.
o Evaluating patient progress through regular re-assessment andensuring continuous progression by gradedactivity through a 1:1 or groups based approach.
o Contribute to formal therapy assessments and providefeedback.
o Review ofpatients after completion of minor adaptationsto home environment.
o Discharge planning including completion of appropriate referrals and reports, home visits and follow up visits as directed by the qualified therapy staff.
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This advert closes on Friday 8 Aug 2025