Therapy Support Worker
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Job summary
Have you got experience working with service users and their carers?
The Specialist Equipment Services support patients with their long-term complex physical health, by provision of bespoke specialist equipment within environmental controls and prosthetics.
Our Therapy Support Worker will provide knowledge and expertise across the Specialist Equipment Services as part of the consultant-led multi-disciplinary team.
This will include taking the lead for some aspects of therapeutic work and ensuring the delivery of safe and effective therapeutic interventions for service users.
The Trust's values will be upheld in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy practice.
Main duties of the job
You will work effectively as a member of the MDT assisting in designing and implementing individual or group interventions to promote the strengths and wellbeing of service users.
You will contribute to assessments of service users' functional strengths following defined processes, maintaining service users' dignity and privacy, observing changes both positive and negative and reporting appropriately.
And undertake clinically related administration, whilst assisting with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of the services, as delegated by an appropriate senior colleague.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Details
Date posted
18 January 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
380-FR0369
Job locations
Disablement Services Centre, Gillingham
Medway Hospital, Windmill Road
Gillingham, Kent
ME7 5NY
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Disablement Services Centre, Gillingham
Medway Hospital, Windmill Road
Gillingham, Kent
ME7 5NY
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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