Stroke Team Therapy Assistant - Winchester, United Kingdom - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Winchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you enjoy helping others achieve their goals? We have an exciting opportunity to join our stroke team as a full time band 3 Therapy assistant, rehabilitating our stroke patients whilst they are on the stroke units at HHFT.

You can make a real difference to patients' lives and help them build a future following a stroke.

Your role will involve working alongside highly specialised Stroke Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists within the hospital setting.

You will work directly with the therapists to deliver rehabilitation as well as deliver exercise programmes independently to aid patients in their recovery

You can expect to receive a robust induction and competency training programme. This will be further developed through regular training and supervision sessions with senior members of the team.

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 Trus

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.