Therapy Assistant - FTC
Location: Lancashire
Salary: £12.21 per hour
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Therapy Assistant
Department: Health & Social Care
Grade / Job family: B
Effective date: February 2022
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.

Key Relationships

• This role carries no line management responsibilities
• The post holder will be expected to work effectively with the Therapy team, the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team(s) and the community
• Responsible for working alongside and/or line managing volunteers within their team

Qualifications required

• No formal qualifications required
• Evidence of an appropriate level of literacy and numeracy

Experience, Skills and Ability

• Understanding of health/social care sector work
• Experience of working with people in a care setting 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

Complexity and Accountability

• This post holds no budgetary responsibility but will be expected to contribute in helping to manage costs where appropriate
• The post holder is expected to be mindful of property and resources, and safeguarding personal possessions
• Providing and receiving routine information
• To communicate effectively and sensitively with service users and their families/friends/carers in situations that may be difficult and emotionally distressing
• Deliver care according to Brainkind policies and procedures

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 user’s 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

Values, Ethics and Confidentiality
When working for Brainkind all employees are required to work responsibly and be accountable for their actions, upholding dignity and the rights and health and wellbeing of our People we Support and their Colleagues. This is achieved by ensuring that Brainkind values and behaviours are demonstrated in everything we do, and this creates the culture of the organisation.
To be aware of Equality Diversity & Inclusion characteristics and ensure that these are considered appropriately throughout all work undertaken.
All staff are required to respect the confidentiality of all matters they may learn relating to their employment, other members of staff and the general public.
This job description is intended to be a dynamic document, subject to agreed alteration and development in line with the evolution of the role

MAIN 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.

MAIN TASKS AND 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 user’s 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

*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks

Complexity and Accountability

• This post holds no budgetary responsibility but will be expected to contribute in helping to manage costs where appropriate
• The post holder is expected to be mindful of property and resources, and safeguarding personal possessions
• Providing and receiving routine information
• To communicate effectively and sensitively with service users and their families/friends/carers in situations that may be difficult and emotionally distressing
• Deliver care according to Brainkind policies and procedure

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 user’s 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 task