Therapy Assistant Job Summary
The therapy assistant will engage in Intermediate care. Intermediate care is a multidisciplinary service that helps people to be as independent as possible. It provides support and rehabilitation to people at risk of hospital admission or who have been in hospital. It aims to ensure people transfer from hospital to the community in a timely way and to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospitals and residential care.
Reading Intermediate Care is a team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a nurse, and senior therapy assistants, who treat people in their own homes to rehabilitate them to as high a level of independence as possible. This supportive multidisciplinary team work with patients across Reading in close communication with social services, voluntary agencies and GPs. The team also support the Rapid Response Service, providing support to patients at risk of hospital admission due to lack of equipment or care support.
Therapy Assistant Main Duties
The Senior Therapy Assistant will work with and support the clinicians by working with the patients to achieve their goals. They will also receive and process referrals, collect relevant data information and share information with the relevant services.
The post holder will support and teach practical skills to junior therapeutic and care assistants, students, patients their relatives and/or carers.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications / Training:
Essential
- NVQ4/ Or Equivalent qualification
- Basic computer course
- ECDL
Desirable
- Healthcare qualification – Foundation level
Continuous Professional Development:
Essential
- Evidence of on-going professional development/relevant courses
- Evidence of statutory & mandatory courses.
Previous Experience:
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years community /nursing /care experience.
- Palliative Care Experience
- Experience of caring for the Elderly
- Proven working experience of one or more of the following: Intermediate Care Assistant Experience, Health care assistant experience, Occupational therapy assistant experience or Physiotherapy assistant experience
- Experience of shift lead
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Essential
- Effective written & verbal communication skills.
- Ability to deal with and communicate sensitive or difficult issues over the telephone or face to face.
- Ability to work alone and as an effective part of a team
- Ability to perform technical skills.
- IT skills and experience
- Ability to demonstrate teaching skills
- The ability to deal with conflict
- Demonstrates organisational skills
- Demonstrates ability to use initiative
- Demonstrates flexibility in approach to working environment
Desirable
- Experience of promoting public health.
- Willingness to undertake further professional development/clinical skills.
- Experience/knowledge of data collection systems including Rio
- Demonstrate ability to receive and process referral information and share information with relevant services
Additional Requirements:
Essential
- Car Driver. Full UK Driving Licence (manual)
- Have use of Car to travel to a variety of settings
- Reliability and an ability to work consistently to the standards expected
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
