Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner Orthopaedics

Frimley, England, United Kingdom

7/11/2025

Job Overview

Band 4 OT Assistant Practitioner – Orthopaedics & Surgical Services

Are You

(Prior experience as an OT assistant is essential).

• passionate about top class patient care with a belief that everyday matters,
• ready for a new challenge,
• driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations,
• committed to making the NHS having a brighter future
  
  

Do You Want

• to learn in a fast-paced hospital setting,
• grow your knowledge about equipment provision and your clinical skills,
• work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience,
• develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders
  
  

We Can Offer

• a great opportunity to mix patient facing assessment skills and equipment provision,
• excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support, supervision, and appraisal from senior colleagues,
• generous training opportunities
• a great enthusiastic friendly team to work along side
  
  

To find about more about the additional things we can offer apply for our post and meet the team. We would love to talk to you.

Main duties of the job

To provide excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth.

The post is a key part of the OT discharge service supporting registered staff with the assessment and rehabilitation

This role includes :-

• Assessment of trauma and elective patients who have been referred Occupational Therapy
• Taking equipment out to patients’ homes and fitting items (training will be given)
• Setting up / providing follow up visits for prescribed equipment,
• maintenance of stock,
• Liaison with outside agencies and patients’ families,
• Teaching patients and their families how to use and fit the equipment
• Undertaking falls assessments
  
  

The post is based at Frimley Park Hospital but applicants must be able to travel between all Frimley Health's hospitals and patient's homes.

Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We provide a service to Frimley Park, Wexham Park, Farnham and Heatherwood Hospitals, as well as our local community team. This offers great development opportunities in a fast-paced settings which provide seven-day services to our patients.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contribute to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

Person specification

Qualificaion/ skills exprience

Essential criteria

• GCSE or equivalent qualification in English and Mathematics.
• Knowledge of anatomy/physiology/ clinical knowledge of specialty
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Foundation Degree or equivalent in related field / or willingness to work towards
  
  

Competencies

Essential criteria

• Interpersonal skills to include concise and effective verbal and written communication.
• Ability to instruct and motivate
• Organisational skills, ability to prioritise and manage day.
• Logical, ability to problem solve
• IT skills
• Ability to conduct and respond to risk assessments
• working knowledge of equipment / minor adaptations
• Basic understanding of the patient condition and its impact on the therapy intervention.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Negotiation skills, able to overcome barriers to exercise.
  
  

PROFESSIONAL/ experience

Essential criteria

• Experience as Band 3 Occupational Therapy assistant within an NHS setting
• Stock management
• Working within a team
• Experience of working directly with patients
• Experience working with wheelchairs
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evaluating outcomes of equipment use
• Knowledge of therapy interventions acquired through training or experience within a healthcare setting
  
  

Special reuirements

Essential criteria

• Willingness to work flexibly
• Able to work to a 7 day pattern
• To be able to travel to and from pts properties, to provide equipment
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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