JOB TITLE: Regional Therapy Assistant
REPORTING TO: All Therapeutic Practitioners
SALARY: Competitive
HOURS OF WORK: Full Time / 40 hours per week (flexible)
About the Role
Careline Lifestyles are seeking a dedicated Regional Therapy Assistant to join our dynamic team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about supporting individuals with complex needs, helping them reach their goals, and enhancing their overall quality of life. As a Regional Therapy Assistant, you will work closely with therapeutic practitioners to deliver high-quality support that enables service users to thrive. You'll help individuals work towards their personal goals, support therapeutic sessions, and assist with clinical observations, documentation, and multi-disciplinary collaboration.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on work, values meaningful interactions, and is keen to learn and grow within a supportive environment.
Duties and Role
Clinical Responsibilities:
To support the delivery of therapeutic intervention plans under the indirect supervision of the therapeutic practitioners within their sphere of competency.
To assist all identified service users to focus on their goals and aspirations and support with the achievement, documentation, and celebration of expected outcomes.
To support access to hydrotherapy, the following programmes set by physiotherapists.
To support the regular monitoring of hydrotherapy pools to ensure these are available for therapeutic sessions.
To support the planning, organisation and implementation of therapeutic group activities and other activities and events, ensuring accurate records are maintained.
To support the management of equipment stocks in line with company procedures and complete audits on equipment as required.
To assist PBS Practitioners in the reviewing of behavioural incidents, identifying trends and completing post-incident reviews.
To provide any additional funded therapy input as directed by therapeutic practitioners.
To support service users to access community based therapeutic activities by providing driving support using company vehicles.
Communication and Documentation
To form professional relationships with clients and their families, communicating with them in a way that they understand and respect their views, autonomy, and culture.
To complete professional contacts behavioral observation documents and relevant recording forms, for all interventions completed.
Develop listening and visual skills to obtain detailed and specific observations during assessment and treatment. The nature of the information being recorded may require a high degree of intense concentration over time to ensure accuracy.
To participate in regular supervision with line managers and direct colleagues.
To be confident in working with a multi-disciplinary team for the benefit of the service user's care.
To support the development and review of care plans relevant to therapeutic input including behaviour support plans.
To contribute to both external and internal multidisciplinary team meetings and act as an identified point of contact for external professionals or family members when required.
To complete regular reports on therapeutic provision and outcomes.
Education and Training
To review and reflect on your own practice and performance through regular participation in professional supervision and appraisal.
To undertake relevant activities to meet training objectives identified with your supervisor.
To keep a record of your training and development activities.
To assist with the preparation, co-ordination, and delivery of a range of relevant training sessions and person-centred formulation sessions.
What We're Looking For
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NVQ Level 2/3 in Health and Social Care (or willingness to work towards this)
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Minimum of 2 years' experience supporting individuals with behaviours of concern
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Experience working with people who have:
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Physical disabilities
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Mental health needs
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Learning disabilities
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Special needs
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Age-related support needs
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A caring, proactive, and resilient approach to supporting vulnerable individuals
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Strong communication, teamwork, and organisational skills
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Clean driving license
About Us
At Careline Lifestyles, we are a family-run specialist provider of residential and nursing care, dedicated to supporting adults with acquired brain injuries, neurological conditions, mental health needs, and complex physical disabilities. Our focus is on empowering people to live life to the fullest, maintaining their identity, and improving their quality of life.
