Generic Therapy Assistant - Ipswich, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
3 weeks ago
Description
Are you in the first 2 years studying Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy or Nutrition and Dietetics at university?
We have a number of fixed term full-time opportunities from July 1 st until 30 th August 2024, working as a therapy assistant across our integrated therapies teams.
Your role would be to provide support for assessment, therapy and management of patients, aiding reablement and providing assistance to our therapy workforce.
You will be placed with a team based in Ipswich Hospital, in accordance with your skill set and our service need.
Areas where you may be placed include; trauma and orthopaedics, acute medical, surgical, acute stroke, older peoples services.This could be supporting any or all of the following disciplines; speech and language therapy, nutrition and dietetics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
This is an excellent opportunity to extend your placement experiences and skills, working with us at ESNEFT
Contribute to formal and informal therapy assessments, under the guidance of a registered therapist and provide feedback on patients' functioning in delegated observation, assessment and treatment sessions.
Assist and inform the registered therapist in the planning, implementation, evaluation and modification of therapy and team interventions.
Under the guidance of a registered therapist provide a range of interventions / programme of interventions, instructing and guiding patients / carers to support them in achieving identified therapy goals, using specific skills and knowledge of health conditions and patients daily living tasks developed in the post and beyond, and relevant to the clinical area.
Under the direction of a qualified Therapist, to have delegated responsibility for an agreed caseload of patients with non-complex needs, where appropriate.
To support clinical administrative tasks, such as producing therapy resources and updating clinical information, under the guidance of a qualified therapist.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex.
Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone.
Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic.
This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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