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Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Hasland; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Hasland is seeking a Therapy Support Worker to assist physiotherapists and support patients in rehabilitation on surgical wards. The role involves helping with timely assessments, performing exercises, and maintaining patient mobility. Candidates should demonstrate energy, a caring nature, and team collaboration skills. Opportunities for working in outpatient amputee rehabilitation and critical care are available.

Qualifications

• Must have a caring nature and interest in rehabilitation.
• Ability to support physiotherapy team effectively.
• Experience in rehabilitation and postoperative care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the Physiotherapists in inpatient and outpatient services.
• Assist with rehabilitation tasks for patients on surgical wards.
• Help prevent deconditioning and maintain patient mobility.

Skills

Caring nature

Teamwork skills

Communication skills

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Therapy Support Worker to join our dynamic, friendly inpatient Surgical team. If you have a caring nature and are interested in working in acute rehabilitation and postoperative care then we want to hear from you! The successful candidate will also have opportunity to support the Physiotherapists working in the outpatient amputee service and to assist with the rehabilitation of patients on our critical care unit.

We're a successful Trust with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standards of clinical quality, patient care and staff experience. The key to our success is simple: our people. Their experience, knowledge, passion and ideas are our greatest resource.

You will be working with our current team and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to ensure our patients receive timely assessments and treatments to facilitate safe discharge from hospital. With your energy and commitment you'll be able to make a huge difference.

As a Therapy Support Worker, you will be mainly working on the inpatient Surgical wards, supporting the Physiotherapy team and working alongside the wider MDT to provide timely assessments and treatments to facilitate patients' discharge from hospital. You will play an important role in helping to prevent deconditioning, and optimising post operative recovery by issuing walking aids, maintaining patients' mobility whilst they are on the ward, as well as providing both chair based and bed exercises.

There is also the opportunity to work in our outpatient Amputee rehabilitation service and to be involved in rehabilitation within Critical Care. This role will also include shared house-keeping duties and stock ordering/management.

Alongside other team members, you'll embody our proud to CARE values to contribute to a truly inclusive workplace. We're not shy about celebrating our people at the Trust and taking them with us on our collaborative journey, with our partners across the local area.

Working for our organisation

We provide a full range of district general services including urgent and emergency care, specialist children's services, maternity and community midwifery. We also offer primary care through three GP practices with eight surgeries between them. Our vision is exceptional care provided by exceptional people. Our mission is to bring our people, communities and partners together - providing patient care we can all be proud of.

Your energy and participation will be critical to our success. We are firmly rooted in the founding principles of the NHS, and we have built on this by "Leading the Chesterfield Way", and with our Proud to CARE values. This means leading with care, openness, integrity and embedding an inclusive culture.

We are committed to supporting and developing staff through appraisals and the supervision process. If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.