Therapy Assistant – Children and Young Adults Therapies Team inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 19 MAY 2024

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 3 Therapy Assistant to join our innovative and award winning Inpatient Paediatric & Teenage therapy team. Ideal candidates will be hard working and flexible with excellent communication and organisational skills. Previous experience of working with children and young people or within a therapy service is desired but not essential. We are seeking individuals who are willing to learn and positively contribute to the service.

A successful candidate will work with qualified Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists to deliver therapy programmes to children and young people admitted to hospital, the majority will be undergoing cancer treatment. Therapy Assistants also provide essential non-clinical and administrative support to the team.

Cancer care is one of the top three strategic priorities for UCLH. As a unified cancer centre together with Great Ormond Street Hospital, UCLH collectively form the largest paediatric & adolescent oncology centre in Europe & our Teenage Cancer Trust inpatient ward is the UK’s first & largest TCT unit.

The team is friendly, supportive and welcoming and an excellent place to develop clinical and non-clinical skills.

• The post holder will provide both clinical and administrative support to the therapy staff within the team
• The post holder will show initiative, motivation and excellent organisational ability working closely with therapy staff to develop administrative support and systems for the therapy team
• The post-holder is flexible and innovative in their approach to work and provides cover for other Therapy assistants and instructors across the service in periods of leave or absences
• The post-holder will be expected, after appropriate training, to perform manual handling tasks
• They will be required to demonstrate time management & prioritisation skills
• They will be required to work with their team on service development and quality assurance projects
• The post holder may be asked to rotate between roles within cancer therapies.
• To participate in 7-day services rota where appropriate.
  
  

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.  

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:  

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
  
  

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology. 

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2and indirect emissions by 2040.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nomi Tysman Job title: Therapies In-patients Email address:


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