Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

The Paediatric Physiotherapy service of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board has an opportunity for a motivated physiotherapy assistant practitioner to join the paediatric physiotherapy team on a part time permanent basis.

This post is intended to support the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service predominantly on Princess of Wales site but may also need to cover other sites including Royal Glamorgan Children’s Centre, Carnegie Clinic and Ysbyty Cwm Cynon Children Centre.

Covering physiotherapy services to schools and helping deliver our enhanced service model in schools is core in this role.

There is an emphasis on delivery of programs of physiotherapy input on an individual and group basis in clinic settings and a variety of Community settings.

Administration and clerical duties to support the smooth running of the service will be expected of you.

The post holder will need to be a team player who enjoys working in a fast paced environment. You will need excellent clinical reasoning, time management, observation and communication skills and be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in achieving well being and positive health outcomes for the population we serve.

The post holder will require the ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling and carry out the full range of duties required of the post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will undertake skilled support work which involves clinical techniques requiring high level of technical skills to assess and treat patients as well as housekeeping and administrative duties to support the physiotherapy service.

The post holder will be expected to organise and manage own caseload; assist with data collection and analysis and bring forward ideas for service development.

Having an understanding of evidence based practice and delivering care in line with current evidence the post holder will conduct delegated new patient assessments, determine and implement care plans, modify treatment in response to patient outcomes and manage the discharge process, within locally agreed protocols, care bundles and guidelines.

Delegation may be through the service referral management process or from a triage or screening assessment process based on local agreements.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Person specification

Knowledge

• An appreciation of the principles of physiotherapy practices and procedures.

Experience

• Experience of working as Band 3 in healthcare or equivalent experience from the leisure or social care sector.

• Leading both group and one to one rehabilitation with patient/service users that require high levels of supervision, advanced communication techniques and planning.

Qualifications

• Knowledge acquired through inhouse training, short course and experience to NVQ 3 level or equivalent plus
• Knowledge of specific patient conditions, forms of therapy, acquired through training, experience
• Minimum 120 credits of Health care support worker framework (60% of which must be at Level 4) or equivalent qualification relevant to role

• Basic understanding of commonly used therapy and medical terms.

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.