Acute Therapy Assistant (Band 3)

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Communication Skills
• Written Communication Skills
• Team Working
• Compassion
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Epsom and St Helier provides a range of rehabilitation services within Epsom Hospital. These work closely together and in collaboration with other agencies to provide a dovetailed service to mainly Epsom and surrounding residents with rehabilitation needs.
This role is to assist Therapists in providing a high standard of therapy services to in-patients and to undertake duties to support the smooth functioning of the therapy departments and service.
All new support workers, including therapy Technical Instructors, are required to undertake the Care Certificate, which is the start of the career journey for Healthcare Support Workers (HCSWs). The aim of the Care Certificate is to ensure that all new and existing support staff are taught and can demonstrate the right skills, knowledge and behavior to provide high quality compassionate care.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see document attached for full details of Job Description and duties.

• To provide specialist and skilled assistance in the delivery of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services for adults and older people.
• To plan, review and independently implement specialist rehabilitation and enablement programs for a variety of clients in varying settings, within a defined area of competence.
• To work closely with Multidisciplinary Teams and other professionals, particularly in relation to patient mobility and enablement, including assessment for and provision of appropriate equipment, and to assist in the development of good working relationships with statutory, voluntary and independent organisations.
• To be able to recognise change in the condition of a patient and monitor the patient’s response to any treatment undertaken. To provide effective feedback to therapists and Multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
• To assist with the care of patients including supervising drinking, toileting, dressing and undressing, using principles of enablement
• To be responsible for competent use and maintenance of all equipment used, to identify and appropriately dispose of walking aids to be condemned, and report defects in other equipment immediately
• To undertake some administrative tasks particularly related to record keeping, filing, photocopying, supplies, errands and message taking in consultation with therapists