Therapy Assistant

We are looking for flexible, dynamic, and enthusiastic Band 3 Therapy Assistant to join our exciting community therapy team covering the North Warwickshire locality. This is a development role into a B4 therapy assistant, this is dependant on the completion of Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care. This distinguished service model will focus on more care in the community, better use of technology and increased multi-disciplinary working.

As a county we are proud of the services our Community teams provide. We have grown considerably over the past few years and we need excellent people to continue our journey of innovation and development.

You will be well supported and encouraged to continuously develop to meet the needs of our service and your career.

The service operates from 8.00am until 18.00. Applicants will also be expected to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

The successful candidates will work with patients in their own homes to deliver integrated care, intervention, equipment provision and short term rehabilitation.

You will liaise and work closely with both Occupational and Physio Therapists and a range of nursing staff within the community response team. As well as General Practitioners, and the acute hospital., The post holder to undertake roles and duties delegated by the Community team leader or suitably qualified and regulated professional. Working within the boundaries set out by the regulated professional, the scope of the role enables the post holder to make a non-complex assessment of the patient according to level of competence and act on the assessment. They will work collaboratively with the team to meet the needs of patients with specified long-term conditions by providing quality evidence-based care. The post holder will follow practice policy and procedures and provide supervision to more junior staff.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in South Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour, to Hospital and Community Services across the North of the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.