Senior Therapy Assistant

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join our Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service as a 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

This post will be essential in order to support the ongoing care and management of clients within the community. The Therapy Assistant role provides support and assistance to the Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapist during multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of patients within the clinical team. The role requires excellent communication skills to be able to liaise with patient, families and their carer, as well as the immediate clinical and the wider multidisciplinary team. The role works clinically under the supervision of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists and Assistant Therapy Practitioners for all aspects of patient care and treatment, equipment provision and documentation. You will work across our Discharge to Assess beds and across all care communities to support patients rehabilitation and therapy needs.

Detailed job description and main 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.