Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy Assistant
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 438-PB1535
- Employer
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Preston Hospital
- Town
- Fulwood, Preston
- Salary
- £22,383 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/05/2024
Employer heading
Therapy Assistant - Neuro-Rehabilitation
Band 2
Job overview
Do you want the opportunity to be a part of a great team at the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit? Developing your skills as a core therapy assistant in a supportive, forward-thinking team?
If so, we have the opportunity for you! We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person with a passion for rehabilitation to join our friendly team as a band 2 therapy assistant. You would be welcomed into a fantastic, established, multi-disciplinary team at the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at Royal Preston Hospital – follow us @NRU_LTHTR.
Main duties of the job
The Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (NRU) is a Specialist Regional Service providing rehabilitation following neurological trauma or disease within Lancashire and South Cumbria. We are an integrated team of OT and physio team working closely with the wider MDT to promote integrated therapy provision. We work in partnership with our acute and community colleagues to provide high quality, seamless service for our patients
In return, we can offer you a supported work environment where you can develop your skills and knowledge and play a key role in the delivery of high-quality health care. There are multiple opportunities for personal and professional development, both within the team and at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. We have a dedicated Health Academy and the learning and development of staff within the trust is very much encouraged and supported, alongside participation in the late shift rota to facilitate discharges from other area of the hospital during times of pressure.
You should be dynamic and flexible with excellent communication and team working skills in order to provide a patient-centred service. Therapeutic handling, personal care activities and splinting are used daily. A background of rehabilitation or neuro-rehabilitation, both cognitive and physical, would be valued but not essential given the challenging presentation of our patients.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work closely within an integrated team of OTs and Physiotherapists and the wider multidisciplinary team to promote an integrated approach to therapy provision within Adult Neuro Rehabilitation.
Duties to include but not be limited to:
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To communicate and collaborate with all Core Therapy Service stakeholders.
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To support personal and people development.
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To help to ensure the health, safety and security of users of the Core Therapy Service, self and colleagues.
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To support service development and planning.
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To support the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda within the Core Therapy Service.
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To support equality of opportunity and access within the Core Therapy Service for both staff and patients.
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To support financial and other resource management within the Core Therapy Service.
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To provide and use information to support admin processes and patient care.
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To directly support the delivery of therapy to patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good General Education
- Literate and numerate
- Experience of working with the public
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with/ caring for people with neurological issues
- Prior experience as a therapy assistant
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working effectively within a team
- Basic IT skills
- An understanding of confidentiality issues
- Commitment to Continued Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients with challenging behaviour
- Experience of neuro splinting
- Experience of working with/ caring for people with neurological issues
- Experience of working with patients with challenging behaviour
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills both verbal and written
- An ability to identify and respond to patient needs
- Adaptable and flexible to the needs of the service
- Able to work under supervision/direction
- Willing to provide sensitive personal care interventions
- Skills in supporting patients’ who have lost function through an accident/illness.
- Work to the standards of the specialist area applying evidence based practice.
- Ensure that knowledge within the speciality is acquired through independent learning and collaboration during the working day with senior staff
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Able to meet the physical and emotional demands of working with patients with complex physical and cognitive problems.
- Following training to be able to move and handle safely and use therapeutic handling techniques under direction.
- Following training ability and willingness to implement cleaning regimes linked to infection prevention
Desirable criteria
- Experience of maintaining/monitoring statistical information over and above the normal provision of activity information
- Experience of leading / supporting group work
- Experience of working with people with cognitive/ executive problems
- Experience of normal movement techniques
- Experience of therapeutic moving and handling
- Experience of managing a timetable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jennifer Woodhead
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01772 524938
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