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**Position**: Therapy Assistant
**Care Home**: Edgewater
**Location**: Wallasey (CH44 7HY)
**Contract type**: Full time and part time hours available
**Shifts Available**: Administrator Hours - Must be flexible
**Rate**: Up to £9.60 ph dependent on experience

**About Exemplar Health Care**:
We have over 20 years of experience providing exceptional specialist nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. We started our journey as a training company, and have grown into one of the country’s leading providers of adult specialist care, with over 35 complex needs care homes in England.
Our vision is that adults living with complex needs can access outstanding specialist care and support, in a community-based home that’s close to their family and friends, and that focuses on their personal goals and outcomes. Our person-centred care is the bedrock for maximising independence, building everyday living skills and empowering people to live as fulfilled lives as possible.
Our mission is to make every day better for the people we support and our colleagues. We’re proud of the culture that we’ve created at Exemplar Health Care, which is underpinned by our vision, mission and values.
**About Edgewater**:
Edgewater is a specialist care service that supports people living with complex and high acuity needs. The home will have three units which specialise in supporting adults with complex mental health needs, neuro disabilities and physical disabilities.
**About the role**
The post holder will function as part of an integrated therapy and activities team working closely with the Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Activities Team as well as the nursing and care colleagues. You will assist with the implementation of rehabilitation and activity programmes, providing support in direct care delivery where required to enable a therapeutic and supportive culture to flourish within a high functioning team environment, therefore experience in a similar role would be advantageous.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Planning facilitating, and contributing to the provision of a flexible, service user centred programme of therapeutic activities, with a skills, rehabilitation and recovery focus, for individuals and groups of service users
- Providing high quality care to all Service Users in accordance with individual care plans, guidelines and rehabilitation programmes
- Delivering specialised rehabilitative, skills-based work, delegated as part of an individual’s specific support plan, to enable service users to achieve their goals and aspirations in relation to their optimal performance in self-care, leisure and productivity.
- Championing service users’ rights for social inclusion and working with the nursing team to optimise opportunities for this
- Promote physical health through activity and support other team members to expand the opportunities for activities that promote recovery and wellbeing
- Keep accurate records and produce summary reports ahead of service user review meetings which include information about participation, engagement and measured outcomes.
- Contribute to professional review meetings to provide feedback regarding outcomes following participation in therapeutic activity programmes
- Adhere to all organisations policies at all times
- Carry out other duties as will, from time to time, be directed

**Clinical and therapeutic**
- _Have an understanding of the needs of individuals with a disability_
- Respect the privacy, dignity, uniqueness and contribution of all Service Users
- Work as part of a team providing a range of physical and mental health services to positively promote the maintenance and development of skills through a process of rehabilitation, recovery and social inclusion strategies focussed on the direct needs of service user.
- Implement specific aspects of the treatment and support plan as directed by the therapy and nursing team.
- Provide a range of therapeutic activities - graded to reflect service user choice, ability, limitations, stage of recovery, and stage of life - enabling and guiding individuals to achieve their optimal performance and personal goals.
- _Work effectively as a member of the team to provide a range of unit or community-based activities that develop independence and skills, promote recovery and wellbeing and that encourage service users’ participation in ‘ordinary’ community social and leisure activities_
- Provide regular and practical support to service users in developing optimal independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect. This may include support with tasks for daily living and home management e.g., budgets, cooking, cleaning and self-care.
- Contribute information and observations and provide structured feedback on service users’ functioning to inform standardised assessments and outcome measures on behalf of the nursing team, implement and evaluate agreed therapy interventions that support the service user to a