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Working Part Time: 33 Hours per Week

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Therapy Assistant within our inpatient therapy team.  

Our team provides therapy to medical and surgical patients at the Countess of Chester Hospital. You will be working on inpatient wards in a fast-paced environment alongside an experienced therapy team. The role may include going out to patient’s homes or visiting other settings if indicated. The role includes working closely with our Multidisciplinary team to ensure we achieve best patient care.   

You will work with Physiotherapists and Occupational providing rehabilitation programmes and enabling patients to be discharged from hospital as soon as possible. 

Effective communication, adaptability to rapidly changing work plans and team working skills are essential for this post. We offer a friendly and supportive environment for learning alongside in service training and opportunities to further develop your career.  

Main duties of the job

The Therapies and Integrated Community Care Division have a Practice Development Therapist who supports the department with learning and development activities. We offer an apprenticeship programme as part of our staff career pathway, offering a supportive and nurturing environment for our unregistered staff with an interest and passion to progress towards becoming a registered health professional. 

The post is varied, and the post holder will need be able to work under their own initiative with supervision from the therapy team. Main duties of the job include to provide support to the therapists in the assessment and treatment of patients and to implement prescribed therapy programmes.

You will be a positive individual with a can-do attitude who can learn and adapt quickly and is flexible. 

Comprehensive training will be provided for all aspects of the work expected by the post holder.  

This post requires an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check.  

You will be expected to work weekends and Bank holidays on a rota basis.

Working for our organisation

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.                                                                 

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.