Job overview

We are looking to recruit a motivated Band 6 Therapist who relishes a fast paced and ever changing environment, to join the Home First Team, based at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey.

The Home First Team covers the “front door” of the hospital: Accident and Emergency, Clinical Assessment Unit and Older Persons Assessment Unit (OPAU) and brings together acute hospital services with Adult Social Care and District and Borough Services whilst maintaining strong links with the Urgent Community Response Team. 

The role is supported by senior colleagues and there is a requirement to work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide timely, holistic and comprehensive therapy assessments, facilitate rapid discharge of medically optimised patients and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. 

There will also be the expectation supervision and development of junior staff will be embraced, contribution to the Therapy wide training programme offered, along with contributing to service improvement initiatives and clinical governance activities.

ASPH offers a seven-day service across some teams and you will be expected to participate in seven day working as per service requirements.  Flexible working requests will be considered.

Main duties of the job

•     To work as an autonomous practitioner and manage a specialist caseload including using respiratory, medical, neurological, and orthopaedic skills
•   To complete comprehensive therapy assessments and formulate suitable interventions and discharge plans to prevent hospital admissions
•        To provide education and teaching to junior therapists and the wider MDT acting as a specialist resource
•     To supervise junior staff, University and Return to Practice students and Apprenticeships from both Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy disciplines
•    To actively participate in service development and contribute to monitoring of standards of practice

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org