Job summary
This is your opportunity to join a dynamic and evolving therapy team at Heartlands Hospital, part of UHB Trust.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Support Worker with excellent communication skills to join our Therapy team.
You will have the opportunity to support the delivery of the physiotherapy and occupational therapy services to patients within the clinical setting. This will involve working under the supervision of registered Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists and having responsibility for an agreed clinical caseload.
The Therapy Support Worker will be required to work on the wards and may be required to complete both community and domiciliary visits to patients' homes. You will be required to report back to the registered therapists regarding patient progress and maintain appropriate records of all patient interventions.
We currently have opportunities within the Medicals / Older People's Therapy Team and the Trauma and Orthopaedic team.
We have opportunities for full time and part time permanent posts working within a large dynamic team of Therapists
The Trust is committed to providing a 7 day service and therefore the role is on a 7 day working rota
Main duties of the job
To support the delivery of the physiotherapy and occupational therapy services to patients within the acute clinical setting within medicals / older people or trauma and orthopaedics.
This will involve accepting patients referred by the therapists for treatment, working unsupervised, reporting back regarding patient progress, informing the therapists of any problems and maintaining appropriate records. Patients will be treated according to set treatment protocols and you will be monitoring patient progression, implementing and making minor alterations to patient treatment programmes as required.
The post holder will need to be flexible, have excellent team working, organisational and time management skills, and have an awareness of the need to respect confidentiality at all times.
You will be required to complete various administration tasks alongside your clinical work. A basic knowledge of IT is desirable.
Previous experience working with elderly people or members of the general public is also desirable.
You should be willing to participate in seven day working.
If you would like to discuss this post or require further details, please contact Craig Colton, Clinical Team Leader for Heartlands on 0121 424 1490 Email: craig.colton@uhb.nhs.uk or Sally Golsby-Taylor, Clinical Team Leader for Heartlands on 0121 424 1490 Email: sally.golsby-taylor@uhb.nhs.uk
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
- * Able to demonstrate competence in maths and written and spoken English
- * Educated to A Level / NVQ 3/ BTEC or equivalent (e.g NVQ 2 or similar vocational qualification PLUS experience working in a care setting)
- * Care certificate or be willing to work towards this
Desirable
- * Evidence of recent education / personal development related to Healthcare
Experience
Essential
- * Relevant therapy / health / social care experience
- * Experience of dealing with people
- * Experience of working in a team
- * Can demonstrate a broad understanding of relevant areas of therapy, the effect of illness/critical conditions / disability on function and health and basic aims of rehabilitation
- * Good 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
- * Experience of working in a role supporting therapists
- * Experience of working with the relevant patient group
- * Broad understanding of working environment --healthcare/NHS/UHB trust/acute care/community as applicable
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Able to communicate via various forms ( face to face, telephone)
- * Able to communicate information and instructions to patients/carers/relatives who have communication difficulties of English as a second language
- * Evidence of being able to work effectively as part of a team / across teams
- * Able to meet the physical demands of the job including physical skills, fitness, dexterity and coordination needed for manual handling and treatment of patients
- * IT and Keyboard skills
- * Able to plan and prioritise own time effectively
- * Able to understand the priorities within team / service respond appropriately
- * Able to solve problems and contribute own ideas seeking guidance if necessary
- * Able to follow instructions
- * Motivated to learn new skills
Desirable
- * Able to demonstrate and teach practical skills to others, including safe use of equipment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Education to GCSE level or equivalent including English and maths
- * Able to demonstrate competence in maths and written and spoken English
- * Educated to A Level / NVQ 3/ BTEC or equivalent (e.g NVQ 2 or similar vocational qualification PLUS experience working in a care setting)
- * Care certificate or be willing to work towards this
Desirable
- * Evidence of recent education / personal development related to Healthcare
Experience
Essential
- * Relevant therapy / health / social care experience
- * Experience of dealing with people
- * Experience of working in a team
- * Can demonstrate a broad understanding of relevant areas of therapy, the effect of illness/critical conditions / disability on function and health and basic aims of rehabilitation
- * Good 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
- * Experience of working in a role supporting therapists
- * Experience of working with the relevant patient group
- * Broad understanding of working environment --healthcare/NHS/UHB trust/acute care/community as applicable
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Able to communicate via various forms ( face to face, telephone)
- * Able to communicate information and instructions to patients/carers/relatives who have communication difficulties of English as a second language
- * Evidence of being able to work effectively as part of a team / across teams
- * Able to meet the physical demands of the job including physical skills, fitness, dexterity and coordination needed for manual handling and treatment of patients
- * IT and Keyboard skills
- * Able to plan and prioritise own time effectively
- * Able to understand the priorities within team / service respond appropriately
- * Able to solve problems and contribute own ideas seeking guidance if necessary
- * Able to follow instructions
- * Motivated to learn new skills
Desirable
- * Able to demonstrate and teach practical skills to others, including safe use of equipment.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
