Senior Therapy Assistant

4 weeks ago


Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

We are looking for dynamic and motivated individuals to join our ward-based Therapy associate teams at both Tunbridge Wells Hospital and Maidstone Hospital sites. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team being introduced into MTW with the purpose of enabling patients and preventing hospital acquired deconditioning. As a founding member of the team you will be involved in its initiation, growth and development and will be essential for its success.

You will be ward based but you will be supervised by a Senior Therapist. As such you will have wide and varied opportunities for career development and training. The department offers a supportive working environment which actively supports Continuing Professional Development, through an established appraisal system, in-service training, and post graduate library facilities.

You must have experience at Band 3 or Band 4 level, and ideally within the acute NHS environment.

You will provide therapeutic care to patients on the wards with a view to enabling patients to be actively engaged and progressing in tasks such as washing and dressing, toileting, mobilising and eating and drinking. You will also carry out regular exercise and communication programmes as prescribed by the ward therapists.

You must have excellent communication and negotiation skills and be able to work with a variety of disciplines in a collaborative manner. Your role will involve liaising and working closely with nursing and therapy colleagues as well as communicating progress reports with discharge teams and the wider MDT both verbally and in written formats.

If the opportunity to drive change for the benefit of patients and be part of an innovative and forward-thinking service excites and inspires you then this is the post for you.

To deliver enabling care to inpatients as part of the “Therapy Associates on the Wards” service to:
Minimise the deconditioning of individual patient’s while on an inpatient ward

Optimise the independence of individual patients in personal care, mobility, transfers, nutrition and hydration etc

Reduce the dependency of double handed packages of care

Reduce number of avoidable patient falls

To be based on a ward and to work as a member of the Multidisciplinary ward team

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

**Interview Date**: To be confirmed



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