Community Therapy Assistant

This is an exciting, permanent new role working alongside our Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists to help our patients find ways around the challenges associated with illness or declining health and long term conditions in order to maximise strength, balance, mobility and independence in activities of daily living.,

• Provide Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy interventions such as home exercise programmes, provision of equipment, & practising activities of daily living as delegated by a qualified therapist.
• Moving & Handling of patients & equipment.
• Carrying out vital observations.
• Recognising and escalating issues of concern and/or safety.
• Equipment provision, fitting & instruction in use.
• Travelling alone by car in the community setting to provide care to patients in their own place of residence.
  
  We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support. From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.