• Job Description

  Req#: C9389-25-0593?language=en&page=916&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Closing Date: 21.07.25

  Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 22.07.25

  Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 28.07.25

  We're offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic individual to join our well-established Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Community Rehab Team.

  As a Therapy Assistant Practitioner, you'll work with a supportive multidisciplinary team across a variety of settings, including patients' homes, clinics, group sessions, and rehab beds. You'll support the delivery of effective therapy for individuals with falls, frailty, long-term conditions, and more, using both preventative and rehabilitative approaches.

  We're looking for someone with experience supporting Occupational Therapy and/or Physiotherapy services, and a strong interest in community-based rehabilitation.

  In return, you'll receive ongoing support, including structured training, competency-based development, regular supervision, and opportunities to grow into managing your own caseload.

  Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an in-person interview.

  Main duties of the job

  To deliver a high standard of health care supporting both Occupational therapists and Physiotherapists, together with the wider MDT, to assess, plan and implement a range of therapeutic interventions to improve the physical, cognitive and functional ability, mood and well-being of patients.

  To undertake assessments and treatments for both physiotherapy and occupational therapy independently.

  There may be additional generic duties as directed by the team.

  To facilitate safe and timely interventions.

  To manage and prioritise own caseload delegated by qualified therapists / MDT evaluating and adapting interventions.

  To contribute to team and service development.

  To contribute to training and support to other team members and students.

  About us

  Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

  • We value people
  • We are one team
  • We care

  We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

  Details

  Date posted

  07 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 4

  Salary

  £26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  389-25-7317946

  Job locations

  Westbourne Green Community Hospital

  26 Heaton Road

  Bradford

  BD8 8RA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see attached job description and personal specification for full description of role, responsibilities and requirements.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see attached job description and personal specification for full description of role, responsibilities and requirements.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Therapy Assistant experience in an NHS Setting/ equivalent experience.

  Desirable

  • Experience of carrying out assessments and/or therapeutic interventions with people in an acute hospital setting
  • Experience of assisting in the therapy provision for patients with complex and /or progressive conditions.
  • Experience of lone working in the community setting
  • Experience of practical training/supervision/appraisal and development of Band 2 therapy assistants
  • Experience of data collection for audit as directed by qualified therapists

  Skills

  Essential

  • Good organisational and time management skills. Including caseload management of a delegated caseload.
  • Effective written and oral communication skills
  • Team player, flexible, adaptable
  • Be able to work effectively alongside all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • Able to undertake home treatment sessions and environmental visits.
  • Able to assess, monitor and review basic treatment plans.
  • Able to use own initiative

  Desirable

  • IT and numeracy skills

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Knowledge of specific patient conditions & forms of therapy
  • Have an understanding of Rehabilitation and the role of Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree Apprenticeship Healthcare Assistant Practitioner - Level 5 Foundation degree Successful candidates who do not have a foundation degree or equivalent in a relevant area will be required to work towards this.
  • GCSE Maths and English or Maths and English - level 2 functional skills
  • *NVQ Level 3 study or evidence of level 3 study or evidence of extensive clinical experience in a health and social care

  Desirable

  • Courses with relevance to the job role.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Therapy Assistant experience in an NHS Setting/ equivalent experience.

  Desirable

  • Experience of carrying out assessments and/or therapeutic interventions with people in an acute hospital setting
  • Experience of assisting in the therapy provision for patients with complex and /or progressive conditions.
  • Experience of lone working in the community setting
  • Experience of practical training/supervision/appraisal and development of Band 2 therapy assistants
  • Experience of data collection for audit as directed by qualified therapists

  Skills

  Essential

  • Good organisational and time management skills. Including caseload management of a delegated caseload.
  • Effective written and oral communication skills
  • Team player, flexible, adaptable
  • Be able to work effectively alongside all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • Able to undertake home treatment sessions and environmental visits.
  • Able to assess, monitor and review basic treatment plans.
  • Able to use own initiative

  Desirable

  • IT and numeracy skills

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Knowledge of specific patient conditions & forms of therapy
  • Have an understanding of Rehabilitation and the role of Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree Apprenticeship Healthcare Assistant Practitioner - Level 5 Foundation degree Successful candidates who do not have a foundation degree or equivalent in a relevant area will be required to work towards this.
  • GCSE Maths and English or Maths and English - level 2 functional skills
  • *NVQ Level 3 study or evidence of level 3 study or evidence of extensive clinical experience in a health and social care

  Desirable

  • Courses with relevance to the job role.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Westbourne Green Community Hospital

  26 Heaton Road

  Bradford

  BD8 8RA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Westbourne Green Community Hospital

  26 Heaton Road

  Bradford

  BD8 8RA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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