Advanced Therapy Assistant
Role Overview
Support high-quality rehabilitation for acute patients, including vascular surgical, emergency surgery, gastroenterology, and gynaecology wards.
Focus on early mobilisation and rehabilitation following amputation or vascular surgery.
The role is based at John Radcliffe Hospital and is 37.5 hours per week.
Key Skills for This Role
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Job purpose
Support high-quality rehabilitation for acute patients, including vascular surgical, emergency surgery, gastroenterology, and gynaecology wards.
Focus on early mobilisation and rehabilitation following amputation or vascular surgery.
The role is based at John Radcliffe Hospital and is 37.5 hours per week.
Clinical care and rehabilitation
- Screen and assess patient needs and support therapy programmes and multidisciplinary initiatives to minimise sedentary behaviour.
- Support prevention and management of delirium and other cognitive disorders through physical and cognitively stimulating activities.
- Identify rehabilitation goals and provide aids that support independence and safe onward care with discharge-to-assess services.
- Manage a delegated clinical caseload, reviewing cases as needed, and provide holistic interventions under treatment plans and protocols.
- Support patient-centred rehabilitation, timely safe discharge, individual choice, and independence.
- Work flexibly across clinical areas and contribute to the department's healthy and active ageing research and development agenda.
Departmental support
- Maintain competencies through continued skills and knowledge development.
- Record patient information in EPR in line with departmental guidance.
- Perform administrative duties and contribute to maintaining departmental operational systems.
- Contribute to induction and training of new staff and students.
- Maintain rehabilitation equipment, including ordering and cleaning it, and communicate with suppliers.
Role expectations
- Provide interventions under agreed treatment plans and protocols and remain accountable to a registered practitioner.
- Maintain clinical competencies through skills and knowledge development.
- Record patient information in EPR according to departmental guidelines.
- Work flexibly across the team and cover clinical areas as needed.
About the Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides general and specialist clinical services, education, training, and research across four hospitals.
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