Job summary
Exciting Opportunity: Therapy Assistant at Mansfield Community Hospital
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join our dynamic therapy team at Mansfield Community Hospital as we enhance our inpatient services and streamline pathways from hospital to home in 2025.
About the Role: This position offers a diverse caseload of medically fit inpatients who need additional rehabilitation or interventions before discharge. As a key member of our dedicated multidisciplinary team, you'll play a crucial role in delivering high-quality outcomes.
What We're Looking For: Compassion, dedication, and excellent communication skills Significant experience in inpatient rehabilitation
Why Join Us?
If you're a therapy assistant seeking a new challenge, this role is perfect for you! We offer excellent opportunities to develop your clinical and personal skills within a friendly environment, supported by strong internal and external networks.
Main duties of the job
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
About us
Sherwood Forest Hospitals is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
Up to date knowledge of relevant conditions and their therapeutic applications Ability to use own initiative Understanding the Dynamics of a group Computer skills Supervisory skills effective prioritisation skills Qualifications
Essential
NVQ Level III in Care "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Support" award (or equivalent qualification) and substantial experience as a therapy assistant Further Training
Essential
Counselling skills Teaching in a group setting Hydrotherapy course Experience
Essential
Substantial experience as a therapy assistant Evidence of CPD/IST Contractual
Essential
Able to work flexibly including weekends Ability to travel between hospital sites
Person Specification Knowledge
Essential
Up to date knowledge of relevant conditions and their therapeutic applications Ability to use own initiative Understanding the Dynamics of a group Computer skills Supervisory skills effective prioritisation skills Qualifications
Essential
NVQ Level III in Care "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Support" award (or equivalent qualification) and substantial experience as a therapy assistant Further Training
Essential
Counselling skills Teaching in a group setting Hydrotherapy course Experience
Essential
Substantial experience as a therapy assistant Evidence of CPD/IST Contractual
Essential
Able to work flexibly including weekends Ability to travel between hospital sites
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
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Address
Mansfield Community Hospital
Stockwell Gate
Mansfield
NG18 5QJ
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