Job summary
- Main area
- Neuro Oncology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 24 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0610
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 (pa pro rata if part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Therapy Support Worker - Neuro Oncology, Band 4
NHS AfC: Band 4
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Senior Therapy Support Worker - Neuro Oncology, Band 4 (24 hours a week)
Join our team as a Senior Therapy Support Worker providing a pivotal role working alongside a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist within the multi-disciplinary Neuro Oncology team. This is a great opportunity to work in a highly specialist area, and to use and develop skills in neurological assessment and treatment, as well as palliative rehabilitation for patients with brain tumours.
The part-time role based at Cheltenham General Hospital provides therapy interventions and support to outpatients and their families, offering community visits and conducting telephone consultations. The role also involves administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running of the service.
Main duties of the job
To assess patients and identify patients’ problems, as well as potential complications and contraindications, and refer back for assessment by a registered practitioner when necessary. To be able to assess, evaluate, progress and report back and assist the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in identifying and planning safe discharge. To identify and organise/undertake appropriate follow up treatment within a delegated framework of responsibilities, reporting back to registered staff and referring on to other agencies when necessary. This will include follow up home visits and post discharge phone calls to help prevent the risks of early discharge exacerbated by functional difficulties and patient and relative/carer anxieties.
To use clinical reasoning skills to agree functional goals and develop and evaluate the treatment plan. To implement and progress treatment programs in order to promote physical / functional independence. To include the instructing of patients on functional exercise, the assessment and issuing of equipment for activities of daily living. Assessing and instructing patients in the safe use of mobility aids and equipment for activities of daily living, and practice activities of daily living such as mobility, safety on the stairs, dressing and bathing.
Further Information can be found in the attached Job Description
Working for our organisation
Join a forward-thinking, compassionate, and high-performing integrated Therapy Service at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exceptional opportunity for a passionate and skilled individual to make a meaningful impact within a supportive and collaborative environment, while developing a fulfilling career.
As a member of the Therapy Service, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across a range of specialties.
What sets the service apart is our strong multi-disciplinary team culture and collaborative working with other colleagues. You’ll benefit from excellent professional development opportunities, including access to structured supervision and educational frameworks, and the chance to be involved in innovative service improvement projects that shape the future of care.
By choosing Gloucestershire Hospitals Therapy Service, you are joining a team that truly values its people. We are proud of our supportive and inclusive culture through our compassionate leadership and our ongoing investment in staff wellbeing and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To embrace the principles of both Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, bringing them together to work in an integrated and client-centred way
To provide high quality therapy in a fast paced, changing working environment within the resources available, to ensure the delivery of Trust targets
To motivate patients to take part in rehabilitation and to promote independence, when there may be reluctance or cognitive and/or communication difficulties.
Working with palliative and end of life patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE level C or equivalent for literacy and numeracy
- EITHER completed or working towards completion of a relevant Foundation Science degree or equivalent
- OR NVQ level 3 or equivalent and experience/skills demonstrated through CPD to include clinical reasoning, appropriate attitudes & behaviours, initiative and leadership
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience as a physiotherapy or occupational therapy support worker working in the NHS or other care setting in the UK
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and non-verbal and written when interacting with staff, patients, relatives and carers.
- Produce accurate and legible documentation of treatments
- Form professional relationships with clients who may need motivating and encouraging, in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
- Work flexibly in response to the changing demands of the service.
- Manage appropriately in difficult emotional or physical environments e.g. upset patients/relatives and difficult physical environments e.g. home circumstances
- Demonstrate an ability to act on own initiative when working independently in challenging environments.
- Evidence of initiative and leadership
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, with self-awareness of own knowledge and learning needs, and ability to seek support appropriately.
- Valid UK driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients with a palliative diagnosis
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nikki Broadbridge
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 8599
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