Senior Therapy Assistant

Job overview

Are you passionate about delivering a high quality patient centred care?

Are you motivated and dedicated to supporting patients with the transition from hospital to home?

Do you want an opportunity to work in a service that is transforming how care is delivered in our community?

If so, then this could be the job for you!

As a Trust, we strive to provide excellent patient care by building strong relationships with colleagues in other services and Trusts. We are rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, delivered on our financial plans in 2018/19 and are playing an integral part in shaping future health service provision countywide alongside partner health and social care organisations.  This includes having an active involvement in Better Together workshops, attending and participating in Neighbourhood Team meetings, and completing integrated work with our nursing teams and other specialist services within LCHS.  This provides fantastic opportunities for networking and building on skills and competencies.  Together with the Clinical Practice Educators, LCHS is dedicated to supporting learning and development of staff, including the preceptorship programme for newly qualified practitioners and return to practice candidates

This post is likely to commence from April 2025

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Rehabilitation Assistant to join our friendly and supportive team based on Scotter ward, John Coupland hospital, Gainsborough on a full or part time basis.

The therapy team provides care and rehabilitation for a variety of special areas including orthopaedics, neurology, frailty and falls, chronic disease management and other medical conditions. The service provides high quality care and works to an enabling philosophy to facilitate patients to achieve their maximal level of independence thereby facilitating discharge and reducing length of stay in hospital.

The candidate should be motivated and enthusiastic and be able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills when communicating with patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team. Rehabilitation Assistants will be expected to participate in discussions about the direction of service developments and improvements and will participate in the service audits and changes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your role will include assisting patients to regain as much functional independence as possible through working on a patient rehabilitation goal approach. The post holder will be able to use skills to carry out simple assessments, follow care plans and prescribe routine equipment within the scope of the job and to a level of assessed competence. Part of this post involves working, without direct supervision at times but under the professional guidance of occupational therapists and physiotherapists.

Please see job description attached for full details.