Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6195307HN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Wheelchair Service
- Town
- Seaton Delaval
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Therapy Assistant - Northumbria Wheelchair Service
NHS AfC: Band 3
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Job summary
Band 3 Therapy Assistant Wheelchair Services
We are pleased to have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, forward thinking and dynamic individual to be part of our experienced team at Northumbria Wheelchair Service.
Northumbria Wheelchair Service provides comprehensive care for adults and children with diverse physical needs. Our team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists focus postural assessment and work closely with families and the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team. Our range of wheelchairs, from standard to complex are tailored to individual needs. Our goal is to support adults and children in achieving optimal mobility, posture, and overall well-being.
A driving licence, access to a car and business insurance is essential for this post (reasonable adjustments will be considered).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with OT, Physio and Technical Instructor supporting service users with their wheelchair provision. The role of the Therapy Assistant is to support the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy team in delivering their interventions. The work is varied and will involve working in a clinic environment, schools, home, care, and hospital settings, the role will also involve admin and stock control.
The right candidate will have experience in working in health and/or social care or similar settings and have an awareness of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy. The post holder will have excellent communication skills and can work effectively as part of a Multi - Disciplinary Team. The post holder will be required to complete delegated tasks independently, training and regular supervision will be provided.
We are looking to appoint an individual who has the appropriate experience and qualifications, the right candidate will able to demonstrate a passion for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, a flexible approach and a drive to develop themselves and the service they work in.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached for the job description document for this post for further details in regards to the main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as part of a team in a health or social care setting or similar.
Desirable
- Previous experience working with and adults and/ or children with complex needs
- Experience of working with equipment
Skills
Essential
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Competent IT skills the post holder will use electronic records daily
- Good verbal and written command of English language
- Ability to plan and organise own and delegated workload and work under pressure in a busy environment in a professional manner
Knowledge
Essential
- Understands the limits of the job role. Has the ability to recognise situations that require reporting and demonstrates the ability to escalate to a senior person when appropriate
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 3 qualification in health and social care or demonstration of equivalent qualification, skills or experience.
Other Essential
- Car owner/Driver (reasonable adjustments will be considered)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 3 qualification in health and social care or demonstration of equivalent qualification, skills or experience.
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Murray
- Job title
- Operational Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967810371
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