Therapy Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for four Therapy Support Workers to work across Cambridgeshire within our Prevention and Early Intervention services. The aim of the service is to identify, prevent, reduce and delay the need for both short- and long-term care and support. It comprises of the Adult Early Help team, Reablement, Technology Enabled Care, Sensory Services and Occupational Therapy.

These new roles will be focusing on providing therapy support to people receiving Reablement, to increase their independence, improve their well-being and decrease their long-term care and support needs.

These are hybrid posts. Working across the county of Cambridgeshire, with the ability to use multiple office bases including March, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives and Cambridge, and the ability to work from home for the completion of documentation and non-clinical tasks.

The roles are offered on a full-time basis (37 hours per week) as a 12 month fixed term opportunity.

Interviews are planned for the week beginning 09/06/25.

We will honour any continuous service in terms of annual leave entitlement for staff joining us from other local authorities or NHS trusts.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the role or employee benefits, please call Occupational Therapy Team Manager Rebecca Marr on 07712251427.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

You will be supported by a registered occupational therapist to manage your own caseload of service users that have been identified as requiring intervention from a therapy support worker.

Working within the agreed scope of practice, you will identify rehabilitation goals with people, monitor and evaluate peoples progress, and communicate regularly with the Reablement service. Interventions will include: functional practice, mobility and transfer assessment and practice, provision of home exercise programmes, activities to improve strength and balance, stairs practice, outdoor mobility, prescription of mobility aids and low-level equipment.

You will be supported to record and evidence the intervention provided and outcomes achieved.

You will have support from the whole OT team, including monthly supervision, daily drop in sessions, team meetings, huddles, professional development group, peer supervision, and a wide range of training opportunities.

Successful candidates will have experience in working in a rehabilitation or reablement/enablement setting, excellent communication skills, and experience of working effectively as part of a team.

You will be required to travel across the county and will need access to a vehicle.

We have office bases across Cambridgeshire and the post holders work base may be negotiable dependant on the needs of the service.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Person Specification

General Requirements

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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.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

St Ives

PE27 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)