Rehabilitation Assistant

Job overview

We are delighted to advertise for a Band 4 post within our team of therapists from the Camden Neurology and Stroke Service. This post is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic setting across the borough of Camden and join a highly supportive and cohesive therapy team. The Service provides client-centred assessment/rehabilitation/disability management at St Pancras Hospital and throughout Camden community, including in clients’ own homes, in therapy gym facilities or in wider community settings.

You will work in the following pathways:

• Stroke Early Supported Discharge
• Long-term conditions
• NeuroActive: exercise-based therapy to prepare for transition to a local gym.

The successful candidate will provide evidence-based, client goal focused rehabilitation appropriate to the various specialist areas. We are looking for a highly motivated team worker with excellent communication skills.

This post will allow the successful applicant to continue to improve knowledge and clinical skills in a range of settings. The candidate will work alongside experienced multidisciplinary teams and be well supported by senior staff both informally and formally through supervision. There is a strong focus on personal and service development and you will take an active role in these.

We reserve the right to close the advert early dependent on the number of applications received.

Main duties of the job

We are recruiting for a generic therapy assistant within the Camden Neurological and Stroke Service, under the guidance and supervision of a qualified therapist. You may work with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists.

To be actively involved with carrying out multi- disciplinary rehabilitation, and enabling care programmes, as well as being assigned other duties such as clerical and administrative and implementing infection control tasks in the gym.

To assist in the running and to support the provision of activity programmes at the Peckwater Centre and in a range of community exercise facilities. This may include facilitating group sessions, and supporting clients on a 1:1 basis in a range of settings under the guidance of a qualified therapist.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide client-centred assessment/rehabilitation/disability management at St Pancras Hospital and throughout Camden community, including in clients’ own homes, in therapy gym facilities or in wider community settings.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.