Senior Therapy Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Senior Therapy Assistant within the Integrated Care Team - Therapy in West Sheffield. The role involves assessing and providing person-centred rehabilitation to patients aged 16 and over in their home environment. You will work with Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, managing your own patient caseload and implementing rehabilitation programmes. The service operates seven days a week, including weekends and Bank Holidays.
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE grade C/4 or above in English and maths or equivalent qualification /experience.
- Level III NVQ in Health and Social Care/ OR diagnostic and therapeutic support or equivalent relevant qualification /experience.
- Demonstrate commitment to life long learning via personal development file.
Desirable criteria
- IT training/qualifications or equivalent
- Special skills
- Due to the requirement to undertake visits and transport non-portable equipment, the post holder is required to be either car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to an alternative means of transport.
- Relevant experience of either, working in rehabilitation in NHS e.g. as a therapy assistant or a rehabilitation assistant/ assistant practitioner or another rehabilitation setting
- To have worked independently managing own patient/client list.
- Experience of liaising with other agencies, services and professional colleagues.
- To have worked in the community setting
- Further Training
- Be able to assess, implement and assist in rehabilitation programmes
- Good verbal and non-verbal communicator with the ability to motivate people.
- To understand and practice confidentiality
- To have developed coping strategies to deal with the emotional nature of the work.
- To have prioritisation skills to independently manage own workload.
- Flexible to meet the needs of the service
- Computer literate
- Educated to GCSE grade C/4 or above in English and maths or equivalent qualification /experience.
- Level III NVQ in Health and Social Care/ OR diagnostic and therapeutic support or equivalent relevant qualification /experience.
- Demonstrate commitment to life long learning via personal development file.
- IT training/qualifications or equivalent
- Special skills
- Due to the requirement to undertake visits and transport non-portable equipment, the post holder is required to be either car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to an alternative means of transport.
- Relevant experience of either, working in rehabilitation in NHS e.g. as a therapy assistant or a rehabilitation assistant/ assistant practitioner or another rehabilitation setting
- To have worked independently managing own patient/client list.
- Experience of liaising with other agencies, services and professional colleagues.
- To have worked in the community setting
- Further Training
- Be able to assess, implement and assist in rehabilitation programmes
- Good verbal and non-verbal communicator with the ability to motivate people.
- To understand and practice confidentiality
- To have developed coping strategies to deal with the emotional nature of the work.
- To have prioritisation skills to independently manage own workload.
- Flexible to meet the needs of the service
- Computer literate
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Therapy Assistant
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Integrated Care Team -Therapy for Band 3 Senior Therapy Assistant in the West of Sheffield. The Therapy Team assess and offer person centred rehabilitation for people referred from various sources: the Hospital, GPs, District Nurses, other Health and Social Care teams. ICT Therapy treat people from the age of 16 to older adults with a variety of conditions and therapy needs in their home environment.
Senior Therapy Assistants work with Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, to carry out rehabilitation programmes and manage their own patient caseload. They are supported by the team and have regular training and supervision.
The successful applicant should have extensive and relevant experience of working in rehabilitation in the NHS, have NVQ III in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Care or Health and Social Care (with therapy specific units) or equivalent qualifications or experience. The applicant must have daily access to a car and have a valid driving license.
This is a seven-day service and covers weekends and Bank Holidays.
Main duties of the job
To assist the interdisciplinary team in the provision of patient centred care.
To implement packages of care and rehabilitation programmes in
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