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Salary : Competitive hourly rate
Location : 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY
Contract : Bank, Flexible
What are we looking for?
Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Therapy Assistant to join our Therapies Team, with a competitive hourly rate on offer.
What makes us different?
Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.
This role will report directly to an appropriate member of the senior therapy team and will be under the responsibility of the Rehabilitation Services Manager. This role will be passionate about rehabilitation and orthopaedics for Inpatients and be motivated to deliver safe, effective and patient centered care supporting the wider high quality, evidenced based therapy team. The post holder will follow an allocated work plan to support patients to achieve tailored rehabilitation goals.
What will your duties include?
- Work with senior therapy Caregivers in the day to day delivery of rehabilitation management for hospitalised patients with physical, cognitive, communicative and emotional impairments maximising independence and quality of life.
- Provide education and mobility training, including mobility aids and stair assessments, following training
- Support patients to carry out bespoke exercise programmes as part of their daily routine, under the guidance of senior Caregivers e.g. for upper limb, mobility, speech or language exercises or postoperatively
- Be responsible for completing the treatment plans identified by senior Caregivers, following training and competency achievement in the appropriate assessment and treatment tools.
- Work flexibly and dynamically with all Caregivers in the safe and effective delivery of rehabilitation.
What we need from you?
- Recent, relevant experience within a hospital setting within Orthopaedics or Rehabilitation – Essential
- Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. – essential
- Effective verbal, telephone and written communication skills in English. – essential
- Compliance with all infection control and personal protective equipment policies and procedures at all times. - essential
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team with a variety of professionals - desirable.
- A basic understanding of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Nursing and the role of a Therapy Assistant. - desirable
What We Offer
As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:
Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
- Priority shifts over agency workers
- Weekly pay
- Access to the LHQ Hub giving you discounts to local venues and restaurants.
Who we are?
Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.
With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.
If you would like to know more, please email
[email protected].
Due to the volume of applications we are not always able to provide individual feedback.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”
As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.
CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.
