Senior Therapy Technical Instructor - Therapies Complex Discharge Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working as a Senior Therapy Technical Instructor within a roaming Therapies Complex Discharge Team. You will support the assessment, treatment, and discharge planning for patients with complex therapy needs across various inpatient wards. Working under the indirect supervision of registered Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, you will manage a delegated caseload, undertake assessments, and implement rehabilitation interventions. The position requires contributing to timely and safe discharge planning, identifying barriers, and progressing treatment plans in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
Key responsibilities
- Assist registered therapy staff in assessing and carrying out specific therapy interventions for clients with complex needs.
- Review and implement treatment programmes, making modifications prior to reporting back to a registered therapist.
- Manage and prioritise own caseload independently, carrying out delegated duties and working flexibly.
- Provide support and training to other registered and non-registered therapy staff.
- Participate in 7-day working patterns, including bank holidays.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of clinical interventions.
Essential criteria
- Personal portfolio of evidence of work based learning in healthcare
- Or NVQ level 4 in care related topic or good standard of education equivalent to A level or BTec
Desirable criteria
- Foundation degree or equivalent in health related subject.
- A combination of short relevant courses
- Knowledge and Experience
- Working in an acute NHS healthcare environment.
- Significant Experience of working with a broad range of medical conditions and age groups.
- Knowledge and understanding of roles, responsibilities and working practices of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists
- Recognise boundaries of own scope of practice and duty of care, seeking assistance as appropriate
- Understanding of basic anatomy and physiology relevant to Therapy care including muscle groups, gait and skeletal anatomy
- Basic IT skills including use of email
- Knowledge of the psychosocial elements of healthcare
- Principles of confidentiality
- Experience of working within a community based setting.
- Well-developed communication skills, including interpersonal skills, liaison, influencing and negotiation.
- Ability to work on own without immediate support
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Ability to delegate and organise others
- Ability to use initiative in addressing own learning needs and appraise own performance
- Basic IT literacy, including use of emails in Microsoft or similar
- Ability to problem solve.
- Pass trust standard literacy and numeracy tests
- Good observation skills.
- Key competencies/ Personal Qualities and Attributes
- Flexible and confident manner with a positive approach and high levels of motivation
- Ability to manage work pressures to enable management of a caseload alongside involvement in non-clinical and professional activities
- Appreciation of the dynamics of working within a team
- Commitment to own personal and professional development
- Enthusiasm for contributing towards development of the Therapy services
- Physical ability to undertake manual handling of patients and equipment on a daily basis
- Personal resources to cope when dealing with patients with complex conditions, acute or terminal illnesses, traumatic injuries, mental impairment and challenging behaviours on a daily basis
- Professional manner and appearance
- Personal mobility to move across the hospital site between clinic/office/treatment areas
- Cope with exposure to body fluids, distressing situations and infections
- Car driver and ability to travel between hospital sites and patient homes
- Education Training and Qualifications
- Personal portfolio of evidence of work based learning in healthcare
- Or NVQ level 4 in care related topic or good standard of education equivalent to A level or BTec
- Foundation degree or equivalent in health related subject.
- A combination of short relevant courses
- Knowledge and Experience
- Working in an acute NHS healthcare environment.
- Significant Experience of working with a broad range of medical conditions and age groups.
- Knowledge and understanding of roles, responsibilities and working practices of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists
- Recognise boundaries of own scope of practice and duty of care, seeking assistance as appropriate
- Understanding of basic anatomy and physiology relevant to Therapy care including muscle groups, gait and skeletal anatomy
- Basic IT skills including use of email
- Knowledge of the psychosocial elements of healthcare
- Principles of confidentiality
- Experience of working within a community based setting.
- Well-developed communication skills, including interpersonal skills, liaison, influencing and negotiation.
- Ability to work on own without immediate support
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Ability to delegate and organise others
- Ability to use initiative in addressing own learning needs and appraise own performance
- Basic IT literacy, including use of emails in Microsoft or similar
- Ability to problem solve.
- Pass trust standard literacy and numeracy tests
- Good observation skills.
- Key competencies/ Personal Qualities and Attributes
- Flexible and confident manner with a positive approach a
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £27,485 – £30,162 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Northampton General Hospital
Senior Therapy Technical Instructor - Therapies Complex Discharge Team
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
The Senior Therapies Technical Instructor will work as part of a roaming Therapies Complex Discharge Team, supporting the assessment, treatment and discharge planning of patients with complex therapy needs impacting discharge across inpatient wards, escalation areas and medically fit patient cohorts.
Working under the indirect supervision of registered Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, the post holder will manage a delegated caseload and undertake assessments, rehabilitation interventions and discharge planning activities within agreed competencies and care pathways. They will contribute to timely, safe and effective discharge planning by identifying barriers to discharge, supporting functional assessment, issuing appropriate low-level equipment and progressing treatment plans in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide therapy support to complex discharge patients identified through ward teams, discharge hub processes, board rounds and escalation meetings. They will act as a key link between ward teams and registered therapists, gathering and communicating information relevant to patient flow, rehabilitation and discharge planning.
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