Band 4 Therapy Support Worker, Equipment & delivery focus

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.

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