Join us as a Band 3 Senior Support Worker and take the next step in your career. This forward-thinking, developmental role offers a clear progression pathway into an Assistant Practitioner post, with the potential opportunity to further advance into an Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy Apprenticeship in the future as your skills and ambitions grow.
You’ll bring a genuine enthusiasm for rehabilitation and a clear commitment to enhancing people’s quality of life. Driven to develop your skills, you’ll embrace ongoing learning as part of your professional journey. Your motivation and positive energy will help elevate the care you deliver. Flexibility is vital, as you’ll work across multiple pathways and contribute to our 7-day service, ensuring high-quality care is always available.
Potential areas include:
* Emergency Department Portals
* Orthopaedics
* Acute to Community Pathways
* Paediatrics
If you’re looking for a role where you can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful difference, and you have strong communication skills and enjoy being part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, this could be the ideal next step. You’ll work alongside dedicated Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, helping to shape pathways that enhance patient experience and outcomes.
As the post involves community work, being a car driver is essential.
Main duties of the job
To support patients to achieve their rehabilitation goals by providing treatment programmes.
To complete stroke /neurology specific therapeutic interventions under the direction of Occupational Therapists, and Physiotherapists.
To act as a key worker for patients on caseload providing feedback to clinicians.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as"Good"by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job responsibilities
To see full list of duties and main responsibilities, please refer to the full job description attached to the vacancy on the Trust website.
Person Specification
Experience
* Substantial, relevant experience in a therapy or rehabilitation role
* Community experience
Qualifications
* Foundation degree in health and social care or equivalent qualification
* NVQ 3 diagnostic and therapeutic care or equivalent competency based qualification
Skills
* Full UK driving license and use of vehicle for work
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time,Part-time
Reference number
225-DIV3-7976439
Job locations
New Cross Hospital/Trust Sites/Community
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