Job Title: Therapy Assistant – Creative and Support Therapies
Salary: £26,228 Pro Rata – £20,982.40 (30 hours) (£13.45 per hour)
Hours: Up to 30 hours, negotiable per week
Location: East Lancashire Hospice – Blackburn
Role Outline
Work proactively as a key member of the Support and Wellbeing team, consisting of Creative and Support Therapies, Complementary Therapy, Bathing and Family Support.
- Support therapy interventions, and work alongside other disciplines, to include Physiotherapy, Hospice at Home, Clinical Nurse Specialists and the Hospice Inpatient Unit.
- Actively engage with patients and their families to identify what matters most to them, and support them to achieve meaningful outcomes.
- Facilitate and deliver a varied programme of creative, therapeutic and wellbeing activities, both for individuals and groups, tailored to personal needs, preferences and goals.
- Adapt activities in a flexible and responsible way to meet changing physical, emotional and social needs.
- Support participation in activities that promote independence, confidence and emotional well-being.
- Collaborate with team members in order to plan effective rotas, training activities and annual leave whilst ensuring baseline cover is maintained.
- Proactively work with team members to overcome obstacles to access and maintain a flexible approach to provision to meet the needs of individuals and those that matter to them.
- Provide verbal and written feedback that is accurate, timely, focused and objective, including changes/deterioration in a person’s condition and/or concerns for family/carers.
- Provide physical care for patients as necessary, for example, assisting people to access toilet facilities and supporting personal care needs during the Hospice visit.
- Contribute to the support and development of volunteers working within the service.
- Engage with patients, professionals and partner organisations both within the Hospice and community to achieve positive outcomes for those accessing Hospice services.
- Demonstrate well-developed and effective communication, negotiation and motivational skills, using empathy, tact, sensitivity and discretion when working with individuals and those that matter to them.
- Contribute to information collection to meet national minimum data set requirements, organisational reporting, local and national audit, as well as other evaluation programmes.
- Participate in general housekeeping duties to maintain a working environment that is welcoming and safe.
Equality and Diversity
We support an inclusive and holistic working environment and aim to empower our people to bring their authentic self to work. We are committed to this and so encourage applications from all individuals with the required skills for the role inclusive of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, colour, caste, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, socio-economic background, trade union membership status, marriage, and civil partnerships. East Lancashire Hospice is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and volunteers.
