Therapy Assistant - Stockport, United Kingdom - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
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Stockport, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Therapy Assistant -Discharge to Assess Across site working if required.


FULL AND PART TIME CONSIDERED
The service operates on a 7 days per week basis.


The Discharge to Assess team is an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport and surrounding areas.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to facilitate timely discharges from a non-acute community bed and provide assessment and support planning to meet a person's needs in the community.


Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional team, you will deliver holistic support and planned interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in a bed based facility.

In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries.


This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport.


The post will offer you the opportunity to provide essential support to the therapy team, completing a range of interventions, supporting environmental and home visits, and working with a wide range of patients supporting therapy plans to facilitate timely discharge.


You should be a great team player who is highly motivated with excellent communication and organisation skills, as well as effective IT skills.

There will be opportunities for further development and training as appropriate.


We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

  • Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • NHS pension scheme membership
  • Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
  • NHS Staff discounts
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary finance for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
  • Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice


The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary


In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.

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