Senior Therapy Assistant

Job overview

Do you fancy a change? Come and work with the Neurological Rehabilitation Therapy Team, every day will be different - guaranteed! We have a unique and exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Therapy Assistant to join us where you will be welcomed into a fantastic, established, multi-disciplinary team at Royal Preston Hospital.

In this role you will have the opportunity to work jointly with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and therapy assistants, as well as working autonomously. Check out our Twitter @NRU_LTHTr to see more about the work we do.

Main duties of the job

Your main duties will be face to face contact with patients to support the therapy team. You should have clinical experience of working with complex neurological patients and have the skills to support delivery of treatment plans to achieve long term rehabilitation goals. You will need to possess excellent communication skills. Therapeutic handling skills, personal care activities and splinting are used daily. Experience of using IT for procurement of equipment and working well within a team are essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will be to support the therapy team to provide assessment and treatment to patients following a neurological event. This will include individual work, joint working and group work in the future. Your role in the team may include completing transfers, mobility and exercise programmes under the guidance of the Physiotherapists. With the OTs your role will include shopping, cooking, insight, attentional and memory work. To  support in the provision of out patient spasticity clinic and to complete the training and competencies required.

In recognition of the need for enhanced provision, the Integrated Therapy Service is looking to move towards 7 day working, and as such the successful candidate will be expected to support this model of care when it is implemented.