Job summary
Therapy Assistant
Location: Lancashire
Salary: £12.21 per hour
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of peoplewith brain injuries in the UK.Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more to recover and meet their personal goals.Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Main duties of the job
- Together with the multi-disciplinary team responsible to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical and functional needs are addressed.
- To support service users with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses, who have specialist palliative or neurological needs
- Responsible to ensure that the service users individual rights and choices are actively promoted and supported, and their beliefs and preferences appropriately acknowledged
- Responsible to report status and variances in treatment and condition to the appropriate Therapist at the earliest opportunity and progress treatment as advised by the Therapist
- Where appropriate, responsible to review, order and fit equipment and work with service users and their carers/family to demonstrate its safe use, either in the centre or in service users home
- Responsible to liaise with service users and family members to help complete forms, gather information and co-ordinate interventions
- To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks such as gathering referrals, recording monthly activity data
- Responsible to collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate service user records in all formats, including written and electronic information systems
About us
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of peoplewith brain injuries in the UK.Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more to recover and meet their personal goals.Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do youll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. Its a place where we recognise, celebrate and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.
Details
Date posted
09 July 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£12.21 an hour
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
B0462-25-0050
Job locations
Brainkind
Teal Avenue
Fulwood
Preston
PR29BN
Employer details
Employer name
Brainkind
Address
Brainkind
Teal Avenue
Fulwood
Preston
PR29BN
Employer's website
https://brainkind.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Bekki Lewis
Supporting documents
Supporting links (all open in new tabs)
Apply through the Brainkind portal
About Brain Injury at Brainkind