Community Senior Therapy Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a generic band 4 Senior Therapy Assistant to work within the Community Resource teams (CRT) in North Denbighshire.

The successful candidate will be joining an established and supportive team of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists who work very closely within the CRT teams including with the District Nurse Team, Social Services and Reablement teams and linking with Primary Care teams, and other partners.

Main duties of the job

The successful Candidate will:

• Assist the occupational therapists and physiotherapists in the overall management of patient’s therapy needs in collaboration with carers, support workers, health staff and agencies.
• Under the direction and guidance of the occupational therapists or physiotherapists, manage and be responsible for their own clinical caseload of clients, following therapeutic rehabilitation programmes in order to improve their functional abilities.
• Prescribe and issue assistive equipment and minor adaptions as appropriate.
• Work independently using own initiative, within level of competence.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

The ability to travel to meet the needs of this role is essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac