Therapy Assistant Stroke

6 months ago


Chertsey, United Kingdom Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Come and join our dynamic, friendly, supportive team of specialist Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists We are looking for a part time (22.5 hrs) Therapy Assistant to work within our stroke team at St Peter’s Hospital. Our dedicated multidisciplinary team supports patients from admission, through to discharge home or onward rehabilitation. You’d work mainly with Therapists but also alongside other health professions. We have a positive approach to development and value our staff, supporting regular training, supervision and appraisal.

You’ll manage a caseload with guidance and support non-clinical duties too, like maintenance of equipment and data entry. You’ll need to work flexibly sometimes in other areas, e.g. medicine and elderly care.

Are you motivated, a good communicator and team worker and have organizational and prioritization skills? If you’re enthusiastic and committed to providing high standards, do get in touch.

You’ll work your hours over a 7 day period. There may be an opportunity for additional hours. We have extensive health and wellbeing support, including a recently opened wellbeing hub - free staff gym and excellent catering facilities. We support work/life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working at interview.

**Please contact**:
Team Lead OT- Acute Stroke

**The post-holder will**:
Assist the therapy teams on the wards, offering a range of treatments under the guidance and supervision of qualified staff to facilitate patients reaching their optimum level of independence and social integration.

Support the therapy team in ensuring safe and timely discharges from hospital.

Participate in weekend working as part of contracted hours.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement

On-site Nurseries

On-site staff cafes

On-site parking

Support in career development

Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

**For more information about a career at ASPH please visit**:
**1. MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST**:
Overview of Responsibilities
- To be part of the ward therapy team and implement specific treatment programmes or interventions delegated by qualified therapy staff
- To manage own clinical caseload
- To work in close liaison with the qualified staff on the ward (Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Speech and Language therapists) to assist them with their duties
- To carry out rehabilitation as determined by patients’ needs
- To deal with a varied caseload of patients
- To undertake non-clinical duties related to the treatment and management of patients, photocopying, filing, ordering/delivering equipment, recording patient contacts on Trust IT system, arranging follow up appointments etc.

Clinical
- To work in collaboration with team members to provide a rehabilitation service for patients within the speciality, assisting in the implementation of programmes to meet individual needs
- To provide therapeutic intervention for individual patients to maintain or improve function in mobility, social and domestic activities.
- To plan, facilitate and evaluate groups on the wards with support from qualified therapy staff
- To advise on the use and provision of mobility equipment.
- To plan treatment programmes, adapting and progressing rehabilitation within the guidelines set by the assessing therapists. This will include modifying treatments to take account of changes in the patient’s physical and mental state
- To work with patients individually or in groups as directed by qualified therapists
- To work in conjunction with patients and carers on specific issues, as directed by the therapy staff, and to deal with their concerns as they arise
- To be aware of problems that could affect patients’ progress and report back changes to the therapist

Managerial
- Manage and prioritise own patient case



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