Therapy Assistant

The Therapy Assistant will work collaboratively with therapy, medical and nursing staff to support and facilitate rehabilitation of patients. The post holder will work as part of the therapy team with training, supervision and ongoing support from therapists, Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

Working under the direction of qualified staff to facilitate rehabilitation and enablement of patients on both the Stroke and neuro rehabilitation ward (Beech) and in the community as part of the Stroke Early Supported Discharge Service.

• Assist in the planning, delivery and evaluation of activities within the rehabilitation programmes to meet the needs of the individual and offer a patient‑centred service.
• Enabling the patient to achieve full potential according to patient‑centred goals, aiming towards independence.
• To work within competencies under direct and indirect supervision of the therapy staff to implement and deliver specific tasks as part of goal directed treatment and rehabilitation programmes.
• To work under own initiative and within competencies with rehabilitation activities following directed programmes and adapting them to meet the needs of the individual with indirect support of the therapist (programmes will include physical, communication, cognitive, functional and swallowing rehabilitation).

Important note:

please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice:
Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt.

This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre‑employment checks.

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the…