Job summary
Are you looking for a post that allows you to:
Use your clinical reasoning to problem solve patient specific problems
Work in both the community and within an inpatient team
Support the development of other staff
Work with patients of different specialities, developing a variety of your own skills
If so we think this post is for you.
The successful candidate will be supporting the therapy teams within the heartlands site to complete site visits, deliver, adapt and collect equipment. To support this the applicant needs to have a UK driver's license with no more than 3 points.
The successful candidate will also have multiple responsibilities in taking a lead of managing equipment stores and ensuring the stock levels of multiple localities and services.
There are opportunities to work with patients both in their own home and also within a inpatient capacity.
If anyone has any additional questions please contact Karen Cunningham on Karen.Cunningham@uhb.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will utilise technical skills to assist in the assessment and treatment of a patients physical, psychological and functional needs, and how these can be supported within their own environment on discharge. The candidate will have their own caseload and will need to be able to use clinical reasoning to prioritise and manage their own time to work unsupervised.
The use of their knowledge of equipment will be imperative in supporting with the completion of site visits, delivering and fitting equipment in patient's home, and feeding back this information to other members of the team.
The successful candidate will become responsible for the onsite peripheral store of equipment at Heartlands ensuring that stock levels are maintained to allow ongoing support for patients and their needs.
As well as taking responsibility for their own development needs they will have responsibilities in the support and supervision pf more junior members of the team. They will also be involved in contributing towards Therapy Service Improvement.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Education to GCSE level or equivalent including English and maths at grade C or above
- *Able to demonstrate competence in maths and written and spoken English
- *Educated to A Level / NVQ 4/ BTEC or equivalent (e.g. NVQ 3 or similar vocational qualification and extensive experience working as a therapy support worker in the Acute setting)
- *Care certificate or be willing to work towards this
Desirable
- *Evidence of recent education / personal development related to Healthcare.
- *Demonstrated has been proactive with continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- *Comprehensive experience supporting therapists in a relevant clinical setting
- *Comprehensive experience of delivering acute inpatient rehabilitation programmes across a variety of clinical settings with evidence of MDT collaboration and hospital discharge planning
- *Experience of training patients and carers in the safe use of equipment
- *Can demonstrate an in depth understanding of relevant areas of therapy, the effect of illness/clinical conditions / disability on function and health and basic aims of rehabilitation
- *Comprehensive understanding of the role of therapy support worker in the relevant area
- *Understanding of confidentiality and data protection in healthcare
Desirable
- *Experience of communicating with and motivating patients who may have communication difficulties
- *Good understanding of working on Acute hospital wards
- *Experience of working in an Acute Health Setting
- *Good understanding of working environment --healthcare/NHS/UHB trust/acute care/community as applicable
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to work as part of an interdisciplinary team
- *Enthusiasm to work as therapy support worker within team
- *Demonstrates ability to manage own diary effectively in line with current service demand
- *Ability to take responsibility under guidance
- *Know own limitations and role boundaries
- *Able to seek support from others when required
- *Able to deal with potentially upsetting clinical settings/situations
- *Demonstrates empathy to a wide range of patients, carers, staff
- *Demonstrates commitment to patient centred care
- *Reliable and trustworthy
- *Able to work under pressure Demonstrates commitment to work flexibly to meet the challenging demands of the service
- *Ability to contribute to weekend working
- *Driver with no more than 3 points on their licence able to drive an automatic vehicle
Desirable
- *Willingness to participate and at times lead in departmental activities i.e. group supervision, course development, delivery of training
- *Demonstrates a commitment to CPD
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Education to GCSE level or equivalent including English and maths at grade C or above
- *Able to demonstrate competence in maths and written and spoken English
- *Educated to A Level / NVQ 4/ BTEC or equivalent (e.g. NVQ 3 or similar vocational qualification and extensive experience working as a therapy support worker in the Acute setting)
- *Care certificate or be willing to work towards this
Desirable
- *Evidence of recent education / personal development related to Healthcare.
- *Demonstrated has been proactive with continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- *Comprehensive experience supporting therapists in a relevant clinical setting
- *Comprehensive experience of delivering acute inpatient rehabilitation programmes across a variety of clinical settings with evidence of MDT collaboration and hospital discharge planning
- *Experience of training patients and carers in the safe use of equipment
- *Can demonstrate an in depth understanding of relevant areas of therapy, the effect of illness/clinical conditions / disability on function and health and basic aims of rehabilitation
- *Comprehensive understanding of the role of therapy support worker in the relevant area
- *Understanding of confidentiality and data protection in healthcare
Desirable
- *Experience of communicating with and motivating patients who may have communication difficulties
- *Good understanding of working on Acute hospital wards
- *Experience of working in an Acute Health Setting
- *Good understanding of working environment --healthcare/NHS/UHB trust/acute care/community as applicable
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to work as part of an interdisciplinary team
- *Enthusiasm to work as therapy support worker within team
- *Demonstrates ability to manage own diary effectively in line with current service demand
- *Ability to take responsibility under guidance
- *Know own limitations and role boundaries
- *Able to seek support from others when required
- *Able to deal with potentially upsetting clinical settings/situations
- *Demonstrates empathy to a wide range of patients, carers, staff
- *Demonstrates commitment to patient centred care
- *Reliable and trustworthy
- *Able to work under pressure Demonstrates commitment to work flexibly to meet the challenging demands of the service
- *Ability to contribute to weekend working
- *Driver with no more than 3 points on their licence able to drive an automatic vehicle
Desirable
- *Willingness to participate and at times lead in departmental activities i.e. group supervision, course development, delivery of training
- *Demonstrates a commitment to CPD
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
