Clinicians - Therapy Assistant
Brainkind
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Job summary
Brainkind in Lancashire is seeking a part-time Therapy Assistant to support the Therapy team in holistic, person-centred care for service users with brain injuries. The role covers cognitive, emotional and physical rehabilitation tasks and requires good teamwork and communication.
Salary £12.96–£14.09 per hour (DOE) for 30 hours per week. 33 days annual leave, pension, health plan and wellbeing benefits are offered, with DBS checks and rolling interviews.
Qualifications
- No formal qualifications required
- Literacy and numeracy evidence
- Understanding of health/social care sector
- Experience in care setting desirable but not essential
- Skilled with all types of people
- Team player with proven collaboration
- Good verbal and written communication
- Ability to follow policies and procedures
- Work autonomously when appropriate
- Prioritise and coordinate daily workload
- Build effective working relationships
Responsibilities
- Support therapy staff to address cognitive, social, emotional, physical and functional needs
- Assist service users with cancer or neurological needs
- Promote and respect service users' rights and choices
- Report status and progress to therapists promptly
- Review, order and fit equipment as appropriate
- Assist with forms, referrals and data collection
- Maintain accurate service user records
- Maintain safe working environment and confidentiality
- Perform administrative tasks to support the service
Skills
Education
Job description
Therapy Assistant
Location: Neurological Care Centre - Lancashire
Salary: £12.96 to £14.09 (DOE)
Hours: 30 hrs per week, Part Time, Permanent
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.
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
ABOUT YOU:
- Educated to GCSE level or QCF Level II or equivalent in recognised health and social care qualifications.
- 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
REWARDS:
You can look forward to excellent benefits including:
- A competitive rate of £12.96 to £14.09 (DOE)
- 33 Days AL
- Buy/Sell up to 5 days AL each year
- Simply Health Plan; helps to cover the cost of routine healthcare treatments. Further information can be found at www.simplyhealth.co.uk/about-us
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Excellent training and support
- Company Pension
- Group life assurance
- Eye voucher scheme
- Long service and staff awards
- Free parking
We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.
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
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.
To support the Therapy staff to provide high-quality holistic person-centred care and support to service users to reach their full rehabilitation potential.
- 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
- No formal qualifications required
- Evidence of an appropriate level of literacy and numeracy
- 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 prioritize, organise and coordinate daily workload
- An ability to build effective working relationships
- 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
- 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
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