Senior Therapy Assistant

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Sheffield is seeking a Senior Therapy Assistant to help assess and provide care for patients. The role involves supporting senior team members, delivering therapy sessions, and contributing to patient care and discharge planning. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and strong interpersonal skills. This position offers a rewarding opportunity in a friendly and supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• GCSE Grade C /4 in English or equivalent experience.
• Technical qualifications to level 3 in health/healthcare.
• Current knowledge & skills in therapy practice.

Responsibilities

• Support senior members of the team to assess and care for patients.
• Deliver therapy sessions and assist in moving patients.
• Contribute to care and discharge planning.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

IT literacy

Teaching ability

Ability to motivate patients

Education

GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in English

Technical qualifications to level 3 in health/healthcare

GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in Maths

Health & Safety

First Aid

Job description

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Therapy Assistant

The closing date is 29 September 2025

Our Acute Medicine Therapy team helps to assess and provide therapy and rehabilitation treatments to a wide variety of patients across our two main hospitals - the Northern General and the Royal Hallamshire. They work with patients on our wards with many different and often complex conditions, to help them recover from ill-health, and regain their strength, movement, and independence, so that they can return home as soon as possible.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Therapy Assistant, you'll support senior members of the team to assess and care for patients, deliver therapy sessions, strength exercises and treatments, and help to assist and move patients. Following a period of training, you will take on your own caseload of patients under the supervision of qualified therapists, contributing more to care, treatment, and discharge planning. You'll also work with community services and other partners to ensure patients have the care, equipment and support they need to return home as soon as possible. You'll be a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), attending handovers, supporting students and new starters, and carrying out a range of admin tasks to help keep the team running smoothly.

We provide excellent in-service training to support staff develop clinical and leadership skills. There's also the chance to get involved in service improvement, new innovations and much more.

We're proud to be a friendly, caring, and supportive team, who help each other to manage caseloads, deliver the best for our patients, and enjoy catching up over a social lunch, and the odd bake-off.

This is a highly rewarding role and will suit someone who wants to make a difference to others and is interested in therapy care.

About us

Further career development opportunities such as Band 4 Assistant Practitioners and Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy apprenticeships are offered. Whilst they are emerging roles within Acute Therapy Services, experienced gained in this role along with the appropriate qualifications are a great foundation to make the next step when an opening becomes available.

The team works seven days a week, and you'll be expected to help support weekend and bank holiday cover if required with a day off the following week.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSE Grade C /4 or equivalent in English or equivalent experience.
• Technical qualifications to level 3 e.g. QCF3, BTEC, A Level in relevant health/healthcare subject OR Evidence of continuous development through formal and/or informal training in health/healthcare equivalent to Level 3
• GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in Maths
• Health & Safety
• First Aid
• City & Guilds 7307 (teaching) or equivalent qualification/experience

Further Training

• Experience of working with therapists as part of patient centred care
• Current knowledge & skills in therapy practice relevant to speciality

Experience

• Relevant experience as an Occupational Therapy and/or Physiotherapy Assistant including successful completion of associated competencies Or Experience as a Clinical Support Worker/Health Care Assistant including successful completion of associated competencies
• Working in elderly/ rehabilitation/ medicine/ surgery/orthopaedic/ neurology specialities.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
• Able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to act on own initiative, organise work and manage multiple tasks
• Calm approach to changing work situations
• Ability to maintain accurate written records & statistics
• Teaching ability
• Able to motivate patients
• Comprehensive understanding of occupational therapy and physiotherapy in line with the role
• IT literate
• Competency in therapy practice

Other Factors

• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
• Positive attitude to patient care and teamwork
• Ability to demonstrate commitment to the Senior Therapy Assistant role
• Willing to work flexibly as service requires including evening/weekend
• Willing to adhere to STHFT PROUD values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff