Clinical Support Worker Higher Level - Therapy Assistant

Job summary

Part time hours 18.75 per week permanent (secondment possible for UHT staff)

If you are applying for a secondment post, you must seek authorisation from your manager who will go through the secondment policy with you.

Are you passionate about rehabilitation and helping patients to achieve their potential and improve their quality of life? If so, this could be the opportunity for you!

We have a Clinical Support Worker Higher Level, Therapy Assistant post, to work within the Middlesbrough Therapy Team to provide rehabilitation to patients in the local community.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role

Main duties of the job

Working in the community, you will work alongside Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists to implement rehabilitation programmes in patients' own homes, care homes and group settings, working closely with statutory and voluntary services to promote and maintain independence.

As well as completing joint visits with therapists the post holder will be expected to undertake independent visits to implement exercise programmes, complete mobility practice, self-care practice, provide, fit and check equipment as requested by the therapist.

At present the service is provided 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) with no requirement to work weekends. The post does require successful candidates to be able to travel independently within the local community to visit patients at home.

Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

About us

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:o Your Leadership Impacto Service Improvement for Beginners

After you complete these one and a half days of training, you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• 3 A-levels OR Health and Science T-level OR equivalent level 3 qualification(s) and Functional Skills (level 2) OR As a level 3 apprenticeship, such as the Senior Healthcare Support Worker apprenticeship (or other level 3 qualification pathway) AND/OR Short courses and completion of competency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care duties AND/OR Equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3; -Theoretical knowledge -Experience of a range of care and related procedures -clinical observations -knowledge of relevant legislation

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in health or social care
• Experience of undertaking and recording clinical observations and escalation of changes or findings.

Desirable

• Experience of working in an NHS care role

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to deal with a wide range of people at all levels, including clients, carers, family, health and social care colleagues and other professionals.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and active listening skills. Ability to adopt appropriate styles and methods of communication.
• Time-keeping, planning and prioritisation skills.
• Basic IT skills to use electronic patient records and other Trust systems.
• Analytical and judgement skills to make decisions based on patient / service user interactions and observations and metrics.
• Understanding of the importance of robust, accurate, clear, timely documentation.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy