Job summary

Working Part time - 22 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Therapy Assistant, on a 12 month fixed term contract, to help support the provision of a rehabilitation service at Pinetum Nursing Home, based on the Countess of Chester Health Park. You will be part of the Inpatient Frailty Team at the Countess of Chester Hospital who are responsible for the therapy provision for these beds.

We provide therapy to approx. 12 patients who are in NHS funded rehabilitation beds within the care home. Our primary focus is to provide a high level of rehab in order to help support patients back to their own home. The service runs 5 days a week - Monday to Friday. You will work in conjunction with the Occupational Therapist, Senior Therapy Assistant and Discharge Co-Ordinator to help achieve timely and safe discharges whilst ensuring patients have the therapy provision to enhance their function.

Whilst this job is being advertised to specially cover Pinetum, you will be part of the wider Inpatient Frailty team, and as such, dependent on the needs of the service, you will need to be flexible to work across all frailty services, this includes our Intermediate Care facilities elsewhere.

Main duties of the job

• To assist with the handling and moving of patients and facilitate with patients daily living tasks on the wards or in the patients home environment, including support with medications.
• To treat patients, as instructed, following assessment by the therapist and be responsible for continuing the therapy plans, prioritising as necessary and informing the therapist of progress and change.
• To demonstrate own job role to new staff / trainees and work experience students.
• To undertake further training opportunities, as identified through appraisal and performance monitoring systems

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations :

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022 / 2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £ or £, this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable