Job Title: Community Therapy Support Worker
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Salary Range: £39,412.11 to £43,585.15
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 26/04/2026
Job Overview
The Community Therapy Support Worker provides support across community and hospital settings, working independently in clients’ homes and local environments. The role involves assessing individual needs, supplying appropriate disability loan equipment, and offering recommendations for straightforward home adaptations. This role will be based on the Health and Care Jersey Rehabilitaion Ward.
Contact Lindsay Rabet @L.rabet@health.gov.je for an informal chat regarding this post.
Job Purpose
The Community Therapy Support Worker provides support across community and hospital settings, working independently in clients’ homes and local environments. The role involves assessing individual needs, supplying appropriate disability loan equipment, and offering recommendations for straightforward home adaptations
Statutory Responsibilities
Statutory responsibilities: Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time
Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2
Participate in the screening, assessment and intervention of patients/clients referred to the service and undertaking the work unsupervised both on hospital sites and in the patient’s own home.
Manage a case load of patients/clients in the community delegated by the Occupational Therapist, and co-ordinating and carrying out any intervention necessary.
Evaluate the needs of the patients/clients and plan long/short term strategies to meet the identified needs and promote maximum independence.
Promote the active involvement of patients/clients in decision making processes involving their personal independence and disability management.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with family members, carers and staff from other departments/agencies involved with the patients/clients in order to provide intervention and on-going support in the community, referring onwards to other professions where necessary.
Attend relevant staff and clinical meetings to discuss and agree case management and reporting on client progress, including the provision of written reports as necessary.
Be responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate patient/client records to monitor effectiveness and facilitate intervention planning and ensuring that client confidentiality requirements are met.
Attend relevant education and training in order to maintain Continuous Professional Development in line with Performance, Review and Appraisal.
Assist in ensuring the maintenance of equipment and resources in accordance with Health and Safety policies.
Qualifications
Essential:Educated to A Level standard.
Desirable: NVQ Level 3 qualification in a Health and Social Care field
Knowledge
Knowledge and understanding of Health and Social Services departments
Knowledge of the wide range of disability equipment and its uses to promote personal independence for the client and carer.
Technical Work Based Skills
Clean driving licence.
General skills / attributes
Good standard of numeracy and literacy together with excellent skills with Windows based software.
Good interpersonal skills and have an interest in promoting the personal independence of individuals.
Physically fit due to community-based working and the installation of community equipment.
Experience
Experience of team working and networking with other agencies and departments
Personal Attributes
Appointees to this role will be required to adhere to and perform their duties in line with the standards identified in the States of Jersey tier 6 core accountabilities attributes and behaviour indicators
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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