Our Acute Medicine Therapy team helps to assess and provide therapy and rehabilitation treatments to a wide variety of patients across our two main hospitals – the Northern General and the Royal Hallamshire. They work with patients on our wards with many different and often complex conditions, to help them recover from ill-health, and regain their strength, movement, and independence, so that they can return home as soon as possible.
As a Senior Therapy Assistant, you'll support senior members of the team to assess and care for patients, deliver therapy sessions, strength exercises and treatments, and help to assist and move patients. Following a period of training, you will take on your own caseload of patients under the supervision of qualified therapists, contributing more to care, treatment, and discharge planning. You'll also work with community services and other partners to ensure patients have the care, equipment and support they need to return home as soon as possible. You'll be a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), attending handovers, supporting students and new starters, and carrying out a range of admin tasks to help keep the team running smoothly.
We provide excellent in-service training to support staff develop clinical and leadership skills. There's also the chance to get involved in service improvement, new innovations and much more.
We're proud to be a friendly, caring, and supportive team, who help each other to manage caseloads, deliver the best for our patients, and enjoy catching up over a social lunch, and the odd bake-off.
This is a highly rewarding role and will suit someone who wants to make a difference to others and is interested in therapy care.
Further career development opportunities such as Band 4 Assistant Practitioners and Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy apprenticeships are offered. Whilst they are emerging roles within Acute Therapy Services, experienced gained in this role along with the appropriate qualifications are a great foundation to make the next step when an opening becomes available.
The team works seven days a week, and you'll be expected to help support weekend and bank holiday cover if required with a day off the following week.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.