Job overview

Are you passionate about helping others return to health and function following acute illness or injury? Would you enjoy re-enabling patients so that they can return home, in the challenging and dynamic environment of an acute hospital?

If so, we are looking for enthusiastic and proactive people to join our Bank at Northampton General Hospital, working alongside Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists as a Therapy Technical Instructor.  This is for a period of 3 months to support winter pressures.  The Therapy Bank has zero committed contracted hours. Shifts will be offered on a service need basis in conjunction with your own personal preferences/commitments. Shifts cannot be guaranteed however where possible we will discuss and agree a routine with you to enable you to forward plan. 

If you feel that you have the relevant skills, experience, and the desire to work in an ever-evolving acute hospital setting, then please apply. You will have the chance to work across a number of our speciality teams to learn and develop your therapy skills and knowledge. Clinical areas include surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, respiratory, stroke, acute medicine, elderly medicine urgent care and the artificial limb fitting service.

You will be joining a supportive team in delivering holistic care to patients, helping to assess and provide treatment as part of the therapy and MDT plan.

Main duties of the job

Implement and record planned programmes of care and comprehensive functional and mobility assessments of patients as directed by a Therapist.

Assess and make recommendations for equipment, home adaptations, care provision and ongoing rehabilitation, reporting these to a Therapist.
Support patients through instruction and guidance in a range of activities, under the direction of a Therapist, in the achievement of identified treatment goals.

Provide advice to patients, their family and carers, teaching and demonstrating the safe use of equipment or other techniques to optimise the patient’s mobility, functional ability, safety and independence.

Build professional relationships with patients, their family and carers, through use of communication, reasoning and negotiating skills, respecting others views, culture and individuality.

Provide effective verbal and written reports to Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists and other multi-disciplinary team members relating to the patient’s performance and progress in their therapy interventions.

Respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.

Working for our organisation

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.
 
We recognise that AI tools can support application writing; however, candidates are asked to keep their use to a minimum. Responses should reflect your own experience, skills and knowledge, as over-reliance on AI-generated content may result in generic answers that do not accurately represent your abilities.
 
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
 
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.