Therapy Assistant | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,651 - £31,312 Per Annum Including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7484063/391-NMUH-7484063 |
Summary
We are looking for a motivated Therapy Assistant to join our Admission Avoidance Team, which is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
You will assist in the assessment, acute rehabilitation and discharge of patients under the care of the Admission Avoidance Team's Therapists and Nurses, facilitating admission avoidance and discharge of medically optimised patients from the Emergency Department and/or Acute Medical wards.
You must be an organised and motived individual who can work flexibly as part of a team and have previous experience of working within a relevant clinical setting.
You will need to have excellent communication skills, be reliable and have the ability to work under pressure within an acute hospital setting.
The Team provides a seven-day service, and you will be expected to participate in the Rota.
To undertake clinical support work to aid the assessment, acute rehabilitation and discharge of patients under the care of the Admission Avoidance Team's Therapists/Nurses facilitating discharge of medically optimised patients from the Emergency Department or Acute Medical wards.
Assist in delivering care and treatments for patients with simple non-complex conditions within agreed parameters set by the AAT Therapists/Nurses, monitoring progress and liaising with qualified staff members regarding the patients’ response to treatment and discharge planning.
Complete a range of administrative tasks including stocktaking and IT based work. AAT is a seven day service and post holder will be expected to participate in the seven day working rota.
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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Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of the job requirements required for this post.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025