Therapy Assistant Job Garforth area,England UK,Healthcare

Therapy Assistant - Internal Only Job Description

Why join us?

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people

with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

Therapy Assistant

Location
:
Daniel Yorath House, Leeds

Salary
: up to £27,476 pro rata per annum

Hours: 21 hours per week

Why join us?

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.

Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

MAIN PURPOSE

To work as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team to support the rehabilitation of people we support with acquired brain injury, working on specific therapy programmes devised and supervised by the clinical team.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical / Professional Practice

To work with people, we support as guided by the registered therapist(s) across all disciplines i.e. occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech, and language therapy, in order to meet outcomes/goals.
To enable, guide and support our people we support with acquired brain injuries in the performance of daily living skills and impairment level therapy activities on the unit, in their own homes and in the community.
To assist the people we support to practice, reinforce, and generalise specific skills and behaviours. The range may include but is not limited to the following: kitchen skills, personal care, indoor and outdoor mobility, transfers, cognitive re-training, upper limb exercises, speech and language exercises, safe swallowing, and social communication practice.
To promote effective communication with people we support, relatives, carers, and colleagues. Accurately relaying relatives/carers comments to the clinical team. Assist people we support in maintaining effective communications, and when necessary to provide people, we support with the means to express, using alternative and augmentative communication systems if necessary.
To promote positive reinforcement of socially acceptable behaviours and model appropriate boundaries whilst maintaining a consistent approach.
To provide assistance to and support the clinical team in the planning and delivery of individually tailored therapeutic programmes of care and rehabilitation.
To consistently follow therapeutic programmes as designed by the clinical team, gain informed and valid consent and provide detailed feedback and monitoring and take an active role feeding into the assessment and evaluation of the programme.
To contribute to risk assessments and be aware of the need to follow guidance and to consult with the clinical team before making changes to any programme.

This Job Description is not intended to be inflexible or include a list of all duties, but an outline of the post; therefore, it may be amended from time to time in consultation with the post-holder.

ABOUT YOU:

Educated to GCSE level or QCF Level II…