Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

• We are looking for a enthusiastic individual to join our dynamic physiotherapy team.
• We are a very friendly, supportive team who are keen to recruit a physiotherapy assistant who is keen to support a varied caseload as a physiotherapy technician, looking to further expand their knowledge and skills.
• We actively encourage in-service training and recognise the value of supervision and appraisal.

For an informal discussion and/or visit please contact Jacqui Holmes, [email protected] or Anna Melvin, [email protected]

Main duties of the job

• To manage the rehabilitation of specific uncomplicated Patients.
• Working without direct supervision, being responsible for assessing
• Patient progress and reporting back to the Physiotherapist as required.
• Instruct Patients and their carers, providing direction and guidance on a range of Physiotherapy activities.
• To deliver an individual Physiotherapy treatment programme based on set protocols, evidence based practise and treatment options using assessment skills and knowledge e.g. Patient education and exercises.
• Encourage Patients and their carers in an active approach to regaining and maintaining personal independence.
• Attend ward based multi-disciplinary team meetings and participate in the clinical decision making process towards discharge planning.
• To liaise with next of kin regarding patient collateral 

Working for our organisation

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated “Outstanding” for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

We have approximately 350 beds and directly employ around 2,900 staff. Our trust provides a full range of diagnostic services and treatment services. Our main site is the Kingston Hospital site but we also run a number of outpatient clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington.