Senior Therapy Assistant

Go back Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Senior Therapy Assistant

The closing date is 02 August 2026

Are you interested in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and working in healthcare? Want to help care for and support people to recover from illness and regain their independence?

Our Acute Medicine Therapy team helps to assess and provide therapy and rehabilitation treatments to a wide variety of patients across our two main hospitals - the Northern General and the Royal Hallamshire. They work with patients on our wards with many different and often complex conditions, to help them recover from ill-health, and regain their strength, movement, and independence, so that they can return home as soon as possible.

As a Sen

As a Senior Therapy Assistant, you'll support senior members of the team to assess and care for patients, deliver therapy sessions, strength exercises and treatments, and help to assist and move patients.

Following a period of training, you will take on your own caseload of patients under the supervision of qualified therapists, contributing more to care, treatment, and discharge planning.

You'll also work with community services and other partners to ensure patients have the care, equipment and support they need to return home as soon as possible.

You'll be a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), attending handovers, supporting students and new starters, and carrying out a range of admin tasks to help keep the team running smoothly.

We provide excellent in-service training to support staff develop clinical and leadership skills. There's also the chance to get involved in service improvement, new innovations and much more.

We're proud to be a friendly, caring, and supportive team, who help each other to manage caseloads, deliver the best for our patients, and enjoy catching up over a social lunch, and the odd bake-off.

This is a highly rewarding role and will suit someone who wants to make a difference to others and is interested in therapy care.

Further career development opportunities such as Band 4 Assistant Practitioners and Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy apprenticeships are offered. Whilst they are emerging roles within Acute Therapy Services, experienced gained in this role along with the appropriate qualifications are a great foundation to make the next step when an opening becomes available.

The team works seven days a week, and you'll be expected to help support weekend and bank holiday cover if required with a day off the following week.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

The team works seven days a week, and youll be expected to help support weekend and bank holiday cover if required with a day off the following week.

• GCSE Grade C /4 or equivalent in English or equivalent experience.
• Technical qualifications to level 3 e.g. QCF3, BTEC, A Level in relevant health/healthcare subject OR Evidence of continuous development through formal and/or informal training in health/healthcare equivalent to Level 3
• GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in Maths
• Health & Safety
• First Aid
• City & Guilds 7307 (teaching) or equivalent qualification/experience

• Experience of working with therapists as part of patient centred care
• Current knowledge & skills in therapy practice relevant to speciality

• Relevant experience as an Occupational Therapy and/or Physiotherapy Assistant including successful completion of associated competencies Or Experience as a Clinical Support Worker/Health Care Assistant including successful completion of associated competencies
• Working in elderly/ rehabilitation/ medicine/ surgery/orthopaedic/ neurology specialities.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
• Able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to act on own initiative, organise work and manage multiple tasks
• Calm approach to changing work situations
• Ability to maintain accurate written records & statistics
• Teaching ability
• Able to motivate patients
• Comprehensive understanding of occupational therapy and physiotherapy in line with the role
• IT literate
• Competency in therapy practice

• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
• Positive attitude to patient care and teamwork
• Ability to demonstrate commitment to the Senior Therapy Assistant role
• Willing to work flexibly as service requires including…