Physiotherapist Assistant
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £13.21 per hour
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Physiotherapist Assistant to join our multi-Disciplinary team to deliver a person-centered therapy service to adults with physical deficits following an acquired brain injury or from a cerebrovascular accident. We are seeking a dynamic Physiotherapy Assistant to join our team of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Psychology and Nurses at All Hallows, Suffolk. All Hallows is part of the Caretech Group, a leading provider of specialist brain injury inpatient rehabilitation services. This role to open to Band 6 candidates.
All Hallows Specialist Neurological Rehabilitation Centre supports men and women with complex healthcare needs having experienced a brain injury, stroke or other neurological event. The services provided at All Hallows comprise: Active / Complex Rehabilitation, High Dependency & Specialist Nursing Care and Progressive Neurological Conditions.
Essential Requirements:
* Experience working within a care setting.
* Ideally, you will have a background or experience of delivering or supporting exercises and physical activities.
* Possess ability to engage, teach, and instruct service users in an agreed specialist area.
* Understand the benefits of engaging patients in meaningful activities, and be able to articulate this to patients.
* Ability to work as part of a team and good interpersonal skills.
* Computer literate with good written and oral communication skills.
Desirable experience:
* Previous experience of specific brain injury rehabilitation.
* Previous experience working as a physiotherapy assistant.
Key Responsibilities:
* Planning, carrying out and evaluation of therapy programmes, running sessions independently and good timekeeping to ensure the successful implementation of physiotherapy sessions.
* Delivering group sessions, so applicants must possess the confidence and organisational skills to manage and carry these out successfully.
* Liaise with nursing staff/unit management to highlight any possible safety issues and therapy needs and ensure this information is relayed to the unit therapy team and the unit Manager.
* The working environment is a residential rehabilitation unit for adults with an acquired brain injury. This environment involves frequent exposure to emotionally demanding situations. There is also possible exposure to aggression and disinhibited behaviour. Working in this environment requires intense concentration and good interpersonal skills.
* To maintain appropriate records of work undertaken, and any other information requirements.
* To be able to complete simple outcome measures as directed by the Physiotherapist.
* To undertake specific administrative duties as directed by the Physiotherapist.
* To support with the cleaning and maintenance of the therapy gym and to assist with audits as directed by the Physiotherapist.
* To engage with teaching and practical sessions with Physiotherapists to aid in completing Physiotherapy Assistant competencies.
Benefits of working for CareTech:
* Competitive salary
* Free Onsite parking
* Refer a Friend Scheme* (T&C’s apply)
* Full support from a multidisciplinary team
* Regular supervisions
* Internal/external training on new initiatives
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.