# Therapy Support Worker

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sirona care & health CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sirona care & health CIC
- **Location:** Sub-acute Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, Ward 100
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Therapy assistant
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 30 hours per week (Hours to be rostered over 7 days including bank holidays and weekends)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13T15:00:33.083Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/Hengrove_way/Sirona_care_health_CIC/Rehabilitation/Rehabilitation-v8343409
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8343409?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://sirona-cic.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you looking to develop your career in Rehabilitation?

We are looking for a Rehabilitation Support Worker to join our therapy stroke rehabilitation team in South Bristol Community Hospital.

You will be working with experienced health care professionals as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team who will give support, joint working, regular supervision, appraisal, competencies and training programme.

The unit consists of 30 beds at South Bristol Community Hospital, which provides a purpose built environment where patients who are ‘medically stable’ can receive stroke rehabilitation assessment, along with focused therapy and support from our multidisciplinary team.

### Main duties of the job

- Promote optimum independence through encouraging rehabilitation techniques.
- As a therapy support worker you will be a key figure in completing the day to day rehabilitation with patients under the instruction of the lead therapists. You will be required to provide feedback on patients' progress and help to ensure that they achieve their maximum potential.
- Undertake a range of delegated clinical and therapy led activities to support patients on the caseload.
- To provide safe, patient centred, effective and evidence-based clinical activities.
- The post holder will work under direct supervision and be responsible to senior therapists providing one to one and group rehabilitation.
- You will work within the Adult Service to deliver a full range of health and social care activities, both acute and long term, supported by a robust competency framework to adults within the complex assessment beds.
- You will be part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team (MDT), which includes nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other Allied Healthcare Professionals

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Please note, we cannot offer a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

If you currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 14 months remaining until the expiry date. If you do not disclose your expiry date within your application, it may not be considered.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

All interviews will take place in person (unless to accommodate for a reasonable adjustment)

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Supporting Information

**Essential**

- Please tell us why you have chosen to apply for this role with Sirona care & health?

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- NVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care or willingness to work towards

**Desirable**

- Apprenticeship in Health (level 3)

### Skills, Knowledge & Experience

**Essential**

- Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team but also to act on own initiative
- Please provide an example where you have communicated effectively with patients / service users to resolve an issue
- Experience of direct patient care in a health or social care setting
- Able to use a variety of IT systems e.g. email, EMIS
- Able to communicate clearly verbal/written/electronic e.g. with people who have barriers in communication

**Desirable**

- Recent relevant experience within a rehabilitation setting
- Experience of working with stroke / neurology and/ or other complex

## Documents

- [jd therapy 3 (pdf, 392.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10667854)
- [application guidance (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2466)

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