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Job Summary

Salary:                Competitive, depending on experience

Hours:                37.5 hours per week

Location:           33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY

Contract:           Full time, permanent

  

  

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Therapy Assistant to join our Orthopedics Team, with a competitive salary range 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.     

  

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.
• 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.
• Be responsible for completing the treatment plans identified by senior Caregivers, following training and competency achievement in the appropriate assessment and treatment tools.
• Provide regular updates and feedback to senior therapy caregivers on patient performance.
• Be responsible for the continual monitoring of these patients after training and have the knowledge when to refer and escalate to registered caregivers
• Work flexibly and dynamically with all Caregivers in the safe and effective delivery of rehabilitation.
• Be responsible for management of delegated caseload safely and appropriately.
• Provide high quality proactive communication to all Caregivers
• Be responsible for own continued professional development with support from senior therapy caregivers.
• Attend and complete mandatory and relevant to role training programmes.
• Assist in administrative tasks assigned by the senior Caregivers across teams.
• Be responsible for monitoring service dates of therapy equipment and inform therapy leads of equipment servicing priorities.
• Be responsible for monitoring computer based therapeutic apps and updating/fault reporting as necessary.

  

What we need from you?

• A levels, NVQ Level III or equivalent skills.
• GCSE or equivalent in English, Mathematics, Science.
• Willingness to learn, ability to participate and gain necessary qualifications as per therapy priority.
• Fluency in written and spoken English essential, additional language skills are desirable.
• A basic understanding of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Nursing and the role of a Therapy Assistant in supporting the rehabilitation team.
• Understanding of and ability to participate in supervision and appraisal
• Able to utilise self-reflection skills and identify own development needs with the support of a clinician where required.
• Able and willing to participate in appropriate training, both internal and external.
• Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Relevant significant experience working in a health, education or social care setting.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team with a variety of professionals - desirable.
• To be able to assist in rehabilitation / manual handling of complex and potentially dependent patients with appropriate equipment and compliance with manual handling policies.

  

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
• Life Assurance, Private Medical & Dental Insurance and Eye Care contributions
• Discounted gym facilities 
• 24/7 Holistic Employee Assistance Programme
• Child Care Vouchers

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 recruitment@ccf.org.

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Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. 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.