Senior Therapy Assistant

1 month ago


Widnes, United Kingdom Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join our Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service as a Senior therapy assistant. The Post Holder will be part working across Halton and providing Therapy intervention in a variety of settings -

Single Point of Access Community Rapid Response / Frailty Team Reablement Team Intermediate Care Unit

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Therapy Assistant, you will be based with a multidisciplinary Therapy team to provide Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy interventions in a variety of inpatient and community settings. You will receive competency-based training in both Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. Following this you will continue to receive support from our Therapy team to enable you to deliver high quality therapy interventions to the best of your ability.

The successful applicant will have previous experience working in a healthcare environment and must be a good team worker, flexible, empathetic, have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively with patients, carers, and other members of the multi-disciplinary teams.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To carry out duties supervised by the therapist which includes:

implementing treatment programmes devised by the qualified therapist following assessment. To assist in general administration, clerical and housekeeping duties relating to the area of work.

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Equal to NVQ level 2 Experience in caring role Good Communication Skills Administration skills

Desirable

Experience working with therapy Worked in Acute Care Experience with patients

Experience

Essential

Equal to NVQ level 2 Experience in caring role Good Communication Skills

Desirable

Experience working with therapy Worked in Acute Care Experience with patients

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Equal to NVQ level 2 Experience in caring role Good Communication Skills

Desirable

Experience working with therapy Worked in Acute Care Experience with patients

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