Equipment Stores Senior Therapy Support Worker

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The closing date is 22 February 2026

We are excited to announce we have an opportunity for a Band 3 Senior Therapy Support Worker to work within our onsite equipment stores, based at Alexandra Hospital, Redditch and support our county wide equipment delivery and fitting service.

You will support the recently integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy services by completing equipment fitting visits for patients in the acute ward setting and be responsible for the maintenance and replenishment of our equipment buffer stock at Alexandra Hospital.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual that will be able to demonstrate a safe and effective patient centred approach to care. You need to be professional, self-motivated with excellent communication skills and the ability to work autonomously.

You will be responsible for managing a referred caseload from the therapy service across both Worcester and Redditch sites and will be required to conduct visits to patients’ properties across the county to fit equipment to promote activities of daily living as delegated by the Therapy teams and to support patient discharge. You will receive regular supervision from highly skilled and knowledgeable therapists and will be provided with full training for the post.

The post offers many opportunities to grow and develop your skills, you will be an active member of our Patient Equipment Review Group and contribute to services developments as part of the group. We also have opportunities to support our Band 3s and Band 4s through degree apprenticeships to become qualified Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists!

This is a full-time post working core hours across Monday to Friday, part-time and flexible working can be considered. The post includes working Bank Holidays on a rota basis and there will be an expectation of 7 day working in the future.

For further information, please contact either Natalie Morris (Therapy Service Lead for Acute & General Medicine) on  or Beverly Phillips (Therapy Service Lead for Elective Orthopaedics) on

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job Purpose:

To take responsibility for the management of the therapy equipment store, this includes ordering of stock, stock control, minimising losses and ensuring that the ward therapy staff have the equipment they require at the right time to support patient mobility, function and safe discharge from the acute hospital.

The post requires attention to detail to ensure that equipment provided to patients is correctly recorded and matched to the community database system.

Working hours will be dependent upon the service provided within each speciality, this may include 7 day working, working contracted hours…