Stroke Early Supported Discharge Therapy Assistant

Job summary

Do you enjoy helping others achieve their goals? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team as a full time band 3 Therapy assistant, supporting and rehabilitating our stroke patients in the community.

Main duties of the job

You can make a real difference to patients' lives and help them build a future following a stroke.

Your role will involve working alongside highly specialised Stroke Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists in the community

You will work directly with the therapists to deliver rehabilitation as well as deliver therapy programmes independently to aid patients in their recoveryYou can expect to receive a robust induction and competency training programme. This will be further developed through regular training and supervision sessions with senior members of the team.

You will work closely with all members of our multidisciplinary team including nursing and psychology, maximising patients recovery and independence in their own environment

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trus