Band 3 Generic Therapy Assistant Stroke Wards
- romford, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full time
Job Description
Band 3 Generic Therapy Assistant Stroke Wards
Company:
Company: Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust are actively recruiting for a motivated and dynamic Band 3 General Therapy Assistant. This is a permanent full-time role where you will work alongside Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists rotating across the Stroke wards along the pathway providing rehabilitation. This includes our Hyper Acute and Acute Stroke Unit at Queens Hospital and our Rehab unit King George Hospital.
As a member of this team, you will be required to communicate well and be confident to work within guidelines and protocols. Working in this passionate and innovative team you will have the opportunity to expand your clinical skills and knowledge with regular in-house training.
Essential criteria include;
- Evidence of recent experience working with people.
- Good standard of general education, to G.C.S.E. level or equivalent
- Level 3 qualification in Healthcare or related topic
To provide skilled routine, and some non-routine, clinical and non-clinical support to the Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy Teams.
The state registered therapist will at all times remain responsible for:
- Primary assessment of patient
- Referral for treatment
- Clinical discharge of patient
- Setting the primary clinical treatment plan and monitoring the progression of the patient
- Overseeing the clinical quality and ensuring appropriateness of the treatment practised on the patient
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queens Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queens and get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Aug 2026
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Band 3 Generic Therapy Assistant Stroke Wards
Company: Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Salary: £30,630 - £32,346 Per Annum Inclusive Hours: Full-time Location: Romford, RM7 0AG Job type: Permanent Posting date: 3 Aug 2026 Closing date: 2 Sept 2026
Summary
A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust are actively recruiting for a motivated and dynamic Band 3 General Therapy Assistant. This is a permanent full-time role where you will work alongside Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists rotating across the Stroke wards along the pathway providing rehabilitation. This includes our Hyper Acute and Acute Stroke Unit at Queens Hospital and our Rehab unit King George Hospital.
As a member of this team, you will be required to communicate well and be confident to work within guidelines and protocols. Working in this passionate and innovative team you will have the opportunity to expand your clinical skills and knowledge with regular in-house training.
Essential criteria include;
- Evidence of recent experience working with people.
- Good standard of general education, to G.C.S.E. level or equivalent
- Level 3 qualification in Healthcare or related topic
To provide skilled routine, and some non-routine, clinical and non-clinical support to the Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy Teams.
The state registered therapist will at all times remain responsible for:
- Primary assessment of patient
- Referral for treatment
- Clinical discharge of patient
- Setting the primary clinical treatment plan and monitoring the progression of the patient
- Overseeing the clinical quality and ensuring appropriateness of the treatment practised on the patient
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queens Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with
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