Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC7138082
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manor Farm Primary Care Resource Centre
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Therapy Assistant
Band 3
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The Paediatric Therapy team are looking for a therapy assistant to support the Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists in delivering therapy sessions to children and young people across Knowsley and St Helens. The role involves travel across both boroughs.
This post is a temporary contract to cover a maternity leave within the service.
The successful applicant will be expected to support both clinical service delivery and administrative tasks.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to support both clinical service delivery and administrative tasks as delegated by the therapists.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Implement rehabilitation programmes/tasks as delegated by a senior member of staff. Make judgements as to the patients’ response to these activities, taking action as required and report as appropriate giving feedback to senior staff as necessary in line with competencies.
2. To provide, instruct and monitor patients as to the use of designated routine equipment in line with competencies.
3. To monitor and maintain clinical and non-clinical routine equipment as delegated in terms of fitness for use and stock levels taking appropriate action e.g. reporting of faults to senior staff/home loans.
4. To communicate with patients/carers/colleagues/ outside agencies on a range of matters with tact and diplomacy where situations/matters may be sensitive and/or difficult seeking support from senior staff as required and feedback
5 To collect, collate, record and report in appropriate form and content clinical and non-clinical activities to the most appropriate person. Taking action as required
6 To maintain clear, accurate own documentation according to service standards
7 Act in ways that maintain and support equality and value diversity within all clinical and non-clinical tasks, activities and interactions. Identifying and responding appropriately to individual differences
8 Adhere to code of conduct for support workers as identified through the CSP/COT and other relevant professional bodies
9 To organise and plan delegated duties in line with designated tasks and responsibilities responding to priorities as appropriate
10 To contribute actively to own personal development participating within the supervision and appraisal processes as supervisee/appraise
11 To support the team in assisting with learning and development activity for new staff and students
12 Take responsibility for non-clinical induction as required
13 To implement departmental and service policies and procedures
14 Participate in review and contribute to developments through suggestions for improvement as appropriate
15 To demonstrate flexibility to the organisation in meeting the demands of the health community
16 To contribute positively to developments and innovations within the Service/Trust. Assisting with delegated public relations and marketing activities
17 To contribute actively to own personal development
18 Utilise informal and formal learning opportunities both independently and with others, as part of a designated project/research
19 To demonstrate through competency framework core clinical and non-clinical skills for job role
20 Act consistently with legislation, policies and procedures which underpin quality
21 Identify and work within own level of competency, responsibility and accountability
22 Feedback regarding issues of capacity and capability to maintain effective, efficient and safe practice
23 To monitor and maintain one’s own and others health, safety and security through the understanding and application of appropriate organisational and departmental policies and procedures
24 To identify and support senior staff in the resolution/management of conflict situations within the work environment
25 To support, through delegated clinical or non-clinical activities audit and practice development activity within the Team
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 or willingness to work towards.
- Willingness to progress through Assistant Competencies
Desirable criteria
- Trained in a variety of assessment tools.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a health care setting with service users with a mental health impairment
- Understanding of safe manual handling techniques to lift / maneuver people using the service and equipment during treatment sessions.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of individuals with sensory and mobility problems.
- Some understanding of anatomy and physiology
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Reasonable level of fitness
- Confident in water
- Professional attitude
- Flexibility
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
- Jennifer Gavin
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07392280589
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