Therapy Assistant

2 weeks ago

Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Brainkind Full time

Therapy Assistant

£ £12.02 per hour

Hitchin, SG4 8BY

37.5 hours per week

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people
with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries - sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more - to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do - you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

About us:

Stagenhoe is a Brainkind specialist neurological care centre based in Hertfordshire, caring for people aged 18 and over a range of neurological conditions.

At Stagenhoe, we provide the care people need to optimise their health and wellbeing, maximise their independence and support their emotional and social needs.

We provide specialist neurological care, rehabilitation and support tailored to the individual needs of people with a range of neurological conditions.


Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support and help improve the lives of people with a neurological condition or brain injury.

Stagenhoe Park is located 8 miles outside Hitchin in the village of St Paul's Walden. Due to its location access to your own transport is required. We cannot offer sponsorship for this role.

Main Purpose:

To support the Therapy staff to provide high-quality holistic person-centred care and support to service users to reach their full rehabilitation potential.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Together with the multidisciplinary team responsible to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical and functional needs are addressed.
  • To support service users with cancer or other lifelimiting illnesses, who have specialist palliative or neurological needs
  • Responsible to ensure that the service users' individual rights and choices are actively promoted and supported, and their beliefs and preferences appropriately acknowledged
  • Responsible to report status and variances in treatment and condition to the appropriate Therapist at the earliest opportunity and progress treatment as advised by the Therapist
  • Where appropriate, responsible to review, order and fit equipment and work with service users and their carers/family to demonstrate its safe use, either in the centre or in service user's home
  • Responsible to liaise with service users and family members to help complete forms, gather information and coordinate interventions
  • To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks such as gathering referrals, recording monthly activity data
  • Responsible to collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate service user records in all formats, including written and electronic information systems
  • Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

About you:

  • Understanding of health/social care sector work
  • Experience of working with people in a care setting is desirable but not essential
  • Skilled in interacting with all types of people
  • Proven experience of working within a team
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Able to work within policies and procedures
  • An ability to work under supervision but also autonomously when appropriate
  • An ability to prioritise, organise and coordinate daily workload
  • An ability to build effective working relationships

Rewards
You can look forward to excellent benefits, including handy discounts on many brands and services.

  • 35 days' holiday including bank holidays.
  • Pension Contributions
  • Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and instore.
  • Perkbox
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Eye voucher scheme
  • Long service and staff awards
  • Free uniform
  • Free Parking
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation.

It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.

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