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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Therapy Support Worker to support the work of the City Community Neighbourhood Team.  

You will be working with the Occupational Therapists & Physiotherapists alongside the multi-disciplinary team to promote rehabilitation enabling the best outcomes achievable.  Visiting clients in their own homes as well as Care Homes and bedded units within the City parameter. 

The Neighbourhood Teams are committed to providing high quality, evidence based practice.  We also have established and effective joint working relationships with the wider community services, including our Hospital@Home team, Discharge to Assess pathways, Adult Social Care (Home First) etc . 

The post holder will need to be

• An excellent communicator – both written and verbal
• Able to engage and work with patients to support them to maximise their functional potential
• An autonomous practitioner and team player
• Keen to learn and develop new skills

The role does require you to be competent in a number of interventions including the  delivery / fitting of equipment in patient’s homes.

The Trust is committed to improving the working lives of all staff.  As a service we promote personal development plans, investing in individual and team learning opportunities to develop, upskill and support completion of inter-professional competencies across Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.   Supporting career progression and innovation. 

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, therapy support workers use developed skills under the supervision of registered therapists and may also work alone and with other non-registered therapy staff. Tasks and responsibilities include the direct delivery of clinical, technical or scientific activities following the completion of role specific competencies.  Therapy support workers are able to make fact-based judgements and suggest treatment progressions to a registered therapist.

This role requires knowledge and understanding of facts, principles, processes and general concepts in their field of work. The post holder will carry out a wider range of delegated duties and will have responsibilities, with supervision and guidance available when needed. Post holder will contribute to service improvement and are responsible for their own development. Therapy support workers will carry their own caseloads that have already been seen by a registered professional, prioritise their own workload, and work with service users under a range of supervisory arrangements while undertaking routine processes.

The post holder will be required to complete the relevant competencies required for the post.  This post may include working with adults and/or children.

Car driver essential.

Proficient knowledge and use of IT systems required. 

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.