Job summary
- Main area
- Community Health Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent: 22.5 - 37.5 Hours. Monday - Friday Rota for weekend 1 in 4- 6 and bank holidays.
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 190-1062-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/11/2025
Employer heading
Senior Therapy Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Would you like to work in the community? Do you want a new challenge?
Come and join our Integrated Care Team –Therapy.
We have a full-time /Part time Senior Therapy Assistant vacancy to work in a community therapy team in the South of the City. The Team treats adults over 16 referred from the Hospital, GPs, District Nurses, and other Health and Social Care services with a variety of conditions and therapy needs to maintaining and improve independent living.
The successful candidate will deliver rehabilitation programmes and provide equipment to patients within the home environment. You will work alongside occupational therapist, physiotherapists and specialist therapy assistants to progress rehabilitation and improve independence.
We work in an integrated way with the nursing teams to achieve the patient goals in a patient centred way. Staff are well supported with regular team meeting, supervision and training.
Main duties of the job
To assist the interdisciplinary team in the provision of patient centred care.
To implement packages of care and rehabilitation programmes in the community and complete patient records.
Undertake assessment of patients within departmental guidelines.
To assist the interdisciplinary team in maintaining an efficient working environment.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE grade 4/C or above in English and Maths or equivalent qualifications/experience
- Level III NVQ in Health and Social Care/ OR diagnostic and therapeutic support or equivalent relevant qualification /experience
- Demonstrate commitment to life long learning via personal development file
Desirable criteria
- IT training/qualifications or equivalent
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Due to the requirement to undertake visits and transport non-portable equipment, the post holder is required to be either car driver with a valid driving licence, or have access to an alternative means of transport
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of either, working in rehabilitation in NHS e.g. as a therapy assistant or a rehabilitation assistant/ assistant practitioner or another rehabilitation setting
- To have worked independently managing own patient/client list
- Experience of liaising with other agencies, services and professional colleagues
Desirable criteria
- To have worked in the community setting
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Be able to assess, implement and assist in rehabilitation programmes
- Good verbal and non-verbal communicator with the ability to motivate people
- To understand and practice confidentiality
- To have developed coping strategies to deal with the emotional nature of the work
- To have prioritisation skills to independently manage own workload
- Flexible to meet the needs of the service
- Computer literate
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
- Carolyn Havenhand
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07905616607
- Additional information
Carolyn Works Tues - Thurs
Sarah Roberts Works Wed- Fri
Tel : 07814137257
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