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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Therapy Technical Instructor to join the Medical Therapies Directorate at Royal Stoke University Hospital, working within the Urgent Care Therapies Team.

This is a permanent position, working 37.5 hours per week.

The post offers the opportunity to work in one of the busiest urgent care centres in the UK within an exciting University Hospital environment with a mixed caseload of patients across a number of areas including A&E Front of House, acute medical unit, resus, short stay ward and ambulatory care. Therefore, the applicant should have an awareness of rehabilitation and discharge planning.

Supervision will be provided by Band 5/6/7 Occupational Therapists/Physiotherapists 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 weekends and bank holidays as part of their role.

Main duties of the job

The Therapies Department comprises of two multidisciplinary based teams, the Medical & Surgical Team and the Network Services Team, incorporating both Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.  These teams form part of the Trust Medical, Surgical and Network Services Divisions.  Each team is led by a Divisional Therapist, Mrs Noeleen Hellis leads the Network Services Therapy Team, Mrs Jane Teasdale leads the Medical & Surgical Therapy Team & Mrs Clare Johnson for the County Hospital.

Administration, clerical and secretarial support is provided to both sites and teams by an A&C team. All Staff must be courteous to patients, their carer’s, the general public, other staff and contacts external to the Trust at all times.  

The specialities within the two teams are as follows:

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