Therapy Assistant

An outstanding job opportunity has arisen for a committed Therapy Assistant in Hitchin Permanent full time position 37.5 hours per week Pay rate £11.49 - £12.02 per hour Specialism Acquired brain injury and a range of other neurological conditions such as Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis. 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. Experience, Skills and Ability • Understanding of health/social care sector work • Experience of working with people in a care setting • Experience with acquired brain injuries and physical disabilities 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 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 For more information, please call LKA Recruitment on (phone number removed) option 3 or email your CV to (url removed)