Therapy Support Worker

Cambridge County Council; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Extra annual leave

Flexible bank holidays

Car lease

Cycle to work

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

Peer support groups

Employee recognition awards

Cambs Rewards discounts

Job summary

Cambridge County Council is seeking an Occupational Therapist to manage a caseload of individuals identified for rehabilitation support. You will work within the agreed scope of practice, set rehabilitation goals, monitor progress and communicate with the Reablement Service.

You will record outcomes and benefit from monthly supervision and a supportive OT team. The role requires collaboration with colleagues, flexible travel across the county, and access to a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Manage your own caseload of people identified as requiring intervention from a therapy support worker.

Job description

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

You will be supported by a registered occupational therapist to manage your own caseload of people that have been identified as requiring intervention from a therapy support worker.

Working within the agreed scope of practice, you will identify rehabilitation goals with people, monitor and evaluate people\'s progress, and communicate regularly with the Reablement service. Interventions will include: functional practice, mobility and transfer assessment and practice, provision of home exercise programmes, activities to improve strength and balance, stairs practice, outdoor mobility, prescription of mobility aids and low-level equipment.

You will be supported to record and evidence the intervention provided and outcomes achieved.

You will have support from the whole OT team, including monthly supervision, daily drop-ins, team meetings, huddles, professional development group, peer supervision, and a wide range of training opportunities.

About you

The successful candidate will have experience in working in a rehabilitation or reablement/enablement setting, excellent communication skills, and experience of working effectively as part of a team.

You will be required to travel across the county and will need access to a vehicle.

We have office bases across Cambridgeshire, and the post holders work base may be negotiable dependant on the needs of the service.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don\'t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don\'t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network \"IDEAL\" and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers