Therapy Assistant

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Therapy Assistant for the Community (Core) Therapy Team based in Scunthorpe. The role involves assisting therapy staff in organising and delivering efficient patient care, with delegated clinical and clerical duties, some unsupervised.

Based in New Beacon House, you will work within an integrated team of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy staff, visiting patients at home or in local care homes while supporting rehabilitation

Responsibilities

• Assist therapy staff in organising and delivering patient care.
• Carry out delegated clinical work and clerical duties; some work may be unsupervised.
• Work within the Community (Core) Therapy Team across North Lincolnshire with home visits.

Job description

We are looking for an Therapy Assistant to take up this role within our community Core Therapy Team based at New Beacon House in Scunthorpe.

This post is to provide assistance to Therapy staff in organising and delivering efficient, effective patient care. This will include carrying out delegated clinical work and administrative and clerical duties within the service area. Some clinical work will be unsupervised.

Main duties of the job

This post is to provide assistance to Therapy staff in organising and delivering efficient, effective patient care. This will include carrying out delegated clinical work and administrative and clerical duties within the service area. Some clinical work will be unsupervised.

You will be based within the Community (Core) Therapy Team in North Lincolnshire (NL). You will work within this integrated team of therapists with a range of patients based in the community. The team is multi disciplinary, you will be based with registered and unregistered Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy staff but also liaise with a wide range of other professionals. You will see individuals predominantly in their own homes but also within care homes locally.

There are opportunities to practice rehabilitation within the team and with your own delegated caseload as well as to support in the provision of basic equipment to support a patient to function in their own environment.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.