Palliative Care Therapy Assistant

2 weeks ago


Ashington, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent full time (37.5hpw) Band 3 Palliative Care Therapy Assistant to join the Palliative Care Service. The post is to cover the Palliative Care Unit, Wansbeck Hospital. The post will be working for Northumbria Healthcare Trust NHS Foundation Trust. You will work closely with the MDT including Consultants, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers and Healthcare Assistants.

The role supports our Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist to deliver therapeutic programmes of reablement and rehabilitation, symptom management, and provision and fitting of equipment.

You must have an ability to work towards NVQ level 3, be educated to GCSE level or equivalent with at least 2 years’ experience of working in an adult health/social care setting.

To support therapists with wellbeing and rehabilitation/reablement programmes for patients on the palliative care unit.

To communicate information and advice to patients, carers, families, agency providers and professional colleagues verbally and in written form, using information technology appropriately.

To complete written and electronic reports, appropriate referrals to internal/external agencies, providing details of interventions.

To order and fit assistive devices/ equipment within competency banding with a degree of accuracy and expertise. This may be undertaken in restrictive conditions i.e. patient home environment.

To support Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists with multiple assessments, ongoing rehabilitation, discharges and quality of life activities.

To support with joint visits in often difficult circumstances.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way

To carry out delegated duties, contributing to the planning / maintenance and
development of the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Service and acting as a valuable resource to other members of the multidisciplinary team.

See attached job description.



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