Therapy Assistant inGreater Ipswich Area inGreater Ipswich Area PUBLISHED 29 APR 2024

AV Gouda

Experience with acquired brain injuries and physical disabilities is desirable but not essential.
An outstanding job opportunity has arisen for a committed Therapy Assistant in Ipswich

Permanent part time position 22.5 hours per week

Pay rate £11.44 per hour

Specialism

Acquired brain injury and a range of other neurological conditions such as Huntingtons disease, Parkinsons, and multiple sclerosis.

Purpose

To support the Therapy staff to provide high-quality holistic person-centred care and support to service users to reach their full rehabilitation potential.


Experience, Skills And Ability


Understanding of health/social care sector work

Experience of working with people in a care setting

Experience with acquired brain injuries and physical disabilities is desirable but not essential

Skilled in interacting with all types of people

Proven experience of working within a team

Good communication skills, both verbal and written

Able to work within policies and procedures

An ability to work under supervision but also autonomously when appropriate

An ability to prioritise, organise and coordinate daily workload

An ability to build effective working relationships

Key Responsibilities

Together with the multi-disciplinary team responsible to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional needs are addressed.

To support service users with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses, who have specialist palliative or neurological needs

Responsible to ensure that the service users individual rights and choices are actively promoted and supported, and their beliefs and preferences appropriately acknowledged

Responsible to report status and variances in treatment and condition to the appropriate Therapist at the earliest opportunity and progress treatment as advised by the Therapist

Where appropriate, responsible to review, order and fit equipment and work with service users and their carers/family to demonstrate its safe use, either in the centre or in service users home

Responsible to liaise with service users and family members to help complete forms, gather information and co-ordinate interventions

To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks such as gathering referrals, recording monthly activity data

Responsible to collect, collate, evaluate, and report information, maintaining accurate service user records in all formats, including written and electronic information systems

Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

For more information, please call LKA Recruitment on option 3 or email your CV to
An outstanding job opportunity has arisen for a committed Therapy Assistant in Ipswich

Permanent part time position 22.5 hours per week

Pay rate £11.44 per hour

Specialism

Acquired brain injury and a range of other neurological conditions such as Huntingtons disease, Parkinsons, and multiple sclerosis.

Purpose

To support the Therapy staff to provide high-quality holistic person-centred care and support to service users to reach their full rehabilitation potential.

Experience, Skills And Ability

Understanding of health/social care sector work

Experience of working with people in a care setting

Experience with acquired brain injuries and physical disabilities is desirable but not essential

Skilled in interacting with all types of people

Proven experience of working within a team

Good communication skills, both verbal and written

Able to work within policies and procedures

An ability to work under supervision but also autonomously when appropriate

An ability to prioritise, organise and coordinate daily workload

An ability to build effective working relationships

Key Responsibilities

Together with the multi-disciplinary team responsible to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional needs are addressed.

To support service users with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses, who have specialist palliative or neurological needs

Responsible to ensure that the service users individual rights and choices are actively promoted and supported, and their beliefs and preferences appropriately acknowledged

Responsible to report status and variances in treatment and condition to the appropriate Therapist at the earliest opportunity and progress treatment as advised by the Therapist

Where appropriate, responsible to review, order and fit equipment and work with service users and their carers/family to demonstrate its safe use, either in the centre or in service users home

Responsible to liaise with service users and family members to help complete forms, gather information and co-ordinate interventions

To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks such as gathering referrals, recording monthly activity data

Responsible to collect, collate, evaluate, and report information, maintaining accurate service user records in all formats, including written and electronic information systems

Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

For more information, please call LKA Recruitment on option 3 or email your CV to


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