Job summary
- Main area
- General Medicine
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 310-OPAC-8268809
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit, Brookfields Hospital, Davidson House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Therapy Support Worker
Band 3
Job overview
Full and Part time hours available.
To work as a member of an interdisciplinary community inpatient healthcare team, working across health and social care boundaries.
With training, use skills from the professional areas of: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Medicines Management to undertake tasks as delegated in order to meet the individual needs of service users.
To report changes or progress to a registered professional and participate with them in reviewing care plans
Main duties of the job
- To carry out duties delegated and supervised by registered professionals.
- To assist in the delivery of high standards of health care and support patients within the community inpatient setting.
- Providing care to patients with deterioration in their health or function
- To implement therapy interventions and treatment plans, such as exercise programmes (group or individual), provision of mobility aid, measuring and fitting adaptive equipment, minor adaptions.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Apply competency based treatment techniques/care to patients with a range of conditions under the supervision of a registered practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan.
- To carry out delegated initial assessments and report back to a registered professional
- To adhere to risk assessments and health and safety assessments, including making an evaluation of a patient conditions and reporting any changes. Newly identified risks.
- To adhere to risk assessments and health and safety assessments, including making an evaluation of a patient conditions and reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
- To provide a high standard of care.
- To plan and provide own delegated workload.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet Strict deadlines.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent of knowledge and experience,
- Good general education up to GCSE equivalent.
- Willingness to undertake training to meet competency framework
Desirable criteria
- Chair Based and Strength and Balance exercise training, or willingness to undertake
- NVQ Level 3 Care Award (certificate & portfolio)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a healthcare environment or care environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of caring for adults and older people with physical and/or mental health conditions, a particular interest in this age group and their welfare/rehabilitation.
- Experience of supporting people to be independent
- Knowledge of the role of registered professional OT and/or Physiotherapist
- Use of adaptive equipment
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Good Communication Skills
- Ability to record messages and information in an accurate and concise way
- Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs
- Ability to work well within a team as well as individually.
- Ability to manage self and prioritise own workload
- Basic computer skills Understanding that this post supports different health systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using Systm One or a similar patient record system
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Professional attitude
- Caring, approachable and courteous manner
- Punctual and reliable
- Maintains confidentiality
- Honest
- Team player
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to: kneel and bend and work in cramped environments
- Move and manoeuvre people and equipment
- Manoeuvre patients using moving and handling aids
Other
Essential criteria
- Positive approach to patients/service users
- Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alex Milne
- Job title
- Clinical Therapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07762 401807
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