Senior Therapy Technical Instructor
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Therapy Technical Instructor to join Medical Therapies at Royal Stoke University Hospital, working within the Palliative Care/Renal Therapies Team. This is a permanent position, working 37.5 hours per week.
The post will involve working alongside a therapies team but managing an independent caseload providing assessment, delivering palliative rehabilitation care, discharge planning, onward referral & equipment provision throughout our patients’ rehabilitative pathway.Therefore, the applicant should have an awareness of rehabilitation and discharge planning.
Main duties of the job
This Senior Therapy Technical Instructor post is clinical but will also have a leadership role to support and develop the band 3 therapy technicians as well as our apprenticeship staff. Training is provided to help support with these developments.
Supervision will be provided by the Band 6/7 Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist and continuous professional development is supported through appraisal and internal and external training.
Therapy Services work within a 7 day shift system therefore the post holder will be required to work as part of the weekend, late shift and bank holiday rotas.
Working for our organisation
The UHNM NHS Trust covers Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke on Trent and County Hospital in Stafford. Royal Stoke a large acute teaching hospital, with a Turnover of £360 million. Located in Stoke on Trent and Stafford, UHNM is close to the M6, within commuting distance of culturally diverse major conurbations, such as Manchester and Birmingham and surrounded by rural pleasures, including the Peak District National Park.
Each year Royal Stoke cares for over 600,000 people providing emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care. It is a leading teaching hospital in partnership with Keele University and has a patient-centred clinical research facility providing state-of-the-art facilities.
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working.You can select your preferences upon application
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria- GCSE English Grade C/4 and above or equivalent or evidence of good literacy
- GCSE Maths Grade C/4 and above or equivalent or evidence of good numeracy
- Meets competency framework for Technical Instructor Band 3 specific to work area
- GCSE Science's Grade C/4 and above
- A Level/NVQ Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- High level of background working in Therapies as a Therapies Technical Instructor
- Acute hospital experiece
Skills, Ability & Knowledge
Essential criteria- Ability to support own development
- Experience of supervising staff
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