Therapy Support Worker - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Based at Childrens Development Centre, City Hospital

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and proactive individual to a Support Worker role within the Community Therapy Team.

Working alongside Physiotherapists whilst also following pathways and protocols to work more independently.

Our service offers physiotherapy and occupational therapy for children within clinic bases and the community.

Our Therapy Team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Orthotists, Assistant Practitioners, and Support Workers providing therapy support and input for the children, families and carers to enable them to improve their function, reach and maintain their independence and achieve their goals.

The duties of this post include carrying out delegated tasks to support the physiotherapists.

Working alongside them with patients and also working more independently to support children and young people access their physiotherapy equipment and programmes at schools, nurseries and in their homes.

The Children's Physiotherapy Team is part of the Community Children's and Young Peoples Specialist Service sitting within the Community Health Care Group.

As part of a larger Trust there are a huge variety of opportunities covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network.

Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.

We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

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For description of main duties and responsibilities, please see Job Description and Person Spec document.

You will work in varied locations such as special schools, mainstream schools and nurseries. You may also work within a clinic setting and also in people's homes.

We are looking for someone with good communication skills who has the ability and flexibility to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

A full programme of training would be available for the successful applicant.

You must have previous experience of working in either with children/ young people and within a therapy rehabilitation environment.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.